Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX

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From: Thomas M. Breuel
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 03:18

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The biggest advantage to me in using TeX over some WYSIWYG word
processor is that the standard UNIX text processing tools can be used
on TeX documents. Being able to use grep, awk, agrep, ed, sed, rcs,
and other tools is a tremendous advantage.

On the other hand, I think TeX scoping and evaluation rules are
unnecessarily hostile towards a WYSIWYG environment (or, for that
matter, towards the user).  A language like TeX but with
better-designed scoping and evaluation rules could very well be used
both for representing WYSIWYG documents and textual editing.

					Thomas.

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