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Article #194Re: Any good WYSIWIG desktop publishing software on UNIX Workstations?
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 18:29
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 18:29
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In article <4662.647633645@ics.uci.edu>, jsweet@ICS.UCI.EDU (Jerry Sweet) writes:
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> If you can stand the learning curve and complicated maintenance
> required, WYSIWYG document production systems still can't beat TeX or
> LaTeX on platforms supported, heterogeneous environment support,
> price, extensibility or hackability. You pay one way or the other,
> though: time and brainpower to deal with TeX, or $$$ for WYSIWYG.
What I would like to see is a WYSI(MOL)WYG setup with files directly
translatable into things such as TeX. It is not important when writing
a paper at the terminal to know _exactly_ how it will look; a fair
approximation is quite enough. I am quite familiar with TeX, and I
do write papers directly in it. However, I consider it a weird system,
loaded with thousands of conventions, and I have been surprised too
often when I print it at the errors made. I believe that we can get
what is asked for.
--
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet) {purdue,pur-ee}!l.cc!cik(UUCP)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!l.cc.purdue.edu!cik From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Any good WYSIWIG desktop publishing software on UNIX Workstations? Message-ID: <2345@l.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 18:29:07 GMT References: <4662.647633645@ics.uci.edu> Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 22