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rcoadh@melomys.co.rmit.oz.AU (Alexander Doktorovich) writes:

>  Thirdly, the comment: I believe the ASCII interface is outdated. It may have
>   been OK when computers were less powerful or when writing a simple 
>   program was a big deal, but now these problems have disappeared-so should
>   the ASCII interface, IMHO that is.
>  Fourthly, the question: considering that (La)TeX has been around for so
>   long and well troden upon, why hasn't the ASCII interface been replaced
>   by a more interactive and graphics based interface?

By using that ASCII interface, I can work on LaTeX via modem from home,
at work, everywhere.

Frankly, I don't care much for a graphical interface. Nowadays, with
modern wordprocessors you still are tempted to fiddle to get things right on
paper and with LaTeX you just don't (can't), and you stick to writing a
report logically.

I have used WP, WPwin and WfW and they all are just a nice jacket
around a command/code based text that is run through a formatter.
I like the table features, though, of those wordprocessors. 

The ASCII interface has more advantages than those I mentioned above.
You can use all kind of generic utilities that can read and handle
ASCII files: ispell, awk, grep and of course your favorite editor!


Richard.
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