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In article <GRODAN.92Apr8190652@cyklop.nada.kth.se> grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se
(Mats G L|fdahl) writes:
>What if you had a button that would pop up a window with a list of the
>parameters of the current paragraph (or the current list or the
>current environment)? Editing that list could put changes to those
>parameters in that paragraph (if necessary inside a group).

     From this and similar comments I have seen over the last little
while, it sounds like at least some of you would be content with a
modern word processor like Word for Windows.  Word for Windows has
styles, an equation editor, etc.  It seems to me that TeX/LaTeX only has
two real advantages over the word processors now:

	  1) Complete source portability across platforms and, at least
	     in theory, binary compatibility too.
	  2) Unusually extensive mathematical typesetting tools.

To these two I would have added

	  3) Layout parameters globally controllable providing a high
	     degree of visual consistency.

except that Word for Windows (and perhaps others) also provides this
sort of global control in the WYSIWYG world.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca