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Article #28344Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re
From: dorner
Date: Wed, 18 May 1988 14:47
Date: Wed, 18 May 1988 14:47
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>typed in our papers using a straight text editor, then imported them
>to WYSWYG (STAR) for the final touches. My conclusion that WYSWYG was a
>closet failure for anything but page layout tasks.
I can't agree. It may be that some WYSIWYG editors are slow enough to
be painful to use, but they are not all that way. I do a fair amount
of writing, and do it all with such an editor (WriteNow, if that matters).
I think the real problem is that the right combination of features/per-
formance has not been found in a lot of programs. And that may be because
it makes good ad copy to say ``Our word processor does it ALL'', while to say
``Our word processor is really FAST'' doesn't seem to make it nowadays.
>Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!bu-cs!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re Message-ID: <15200015@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 May 88 14:47:00 GMT References: <8452@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU:8452:uxg.cso.uiuc.edu:15200015:000:909 Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner May 18 09:47:00 1988 Posted: Wed May 18 10:47:00 1988