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Article #8806Re: Follow up uestion
From: ned.horvath
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 15:52
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 15:52
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From article <19852@slice.ooc.uva.nl>, by morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS): > The UNIX user I was talking about in my previous posting is utterly > convinced that he can produce FAR FAR SUPPERIOR output with his trusted > text formatted processing than with my Macs text WYSIWYG processing. > I don't personnally agree with him but i'd be interested to learn what > the general impressions from the net are. And I can call spirits from the vasty deep -- they just don't come when I call them... 98% of what I want a word processor to do, something like Word or FullWrite will do with 10% of the time, effort, and pain of doing it with troff. For the last 2%, I'll cons up the image I want with some APPROPRIATE tool (Photoshop, or SuperPaint, or Excel, or...) and pop the image into the 98% word processor. With publish/subscribe in system 7, this will become even more natural. I did my Ph.D. thesis with troff in 1974. It was great technology for 1974. I've since recycled those brain cells... -- =Ned Horvath= ehorvath@attmail.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!cbnewsk!ech From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Follow up uestion Message-ID: <1991May2.155243.577@cbnewsk.att.com> Date: 2 May 91 15:52:43 GMT References: <19852@slice.ooc.uva.nl> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24