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In article <1992Apr9.005634.29691@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:

   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:

	etc etc

Here is a possibly interesing hybrid approach:

Use your favourite WYSIWYG application to do the text, but import equations
--- which are hard to do in most WYSIWYG applications --- from a DVI
previewer using `copy' to clipboard and `pasting'.  Then you use TeX just
to do parts that are hard to do in typical DeskTopPublishing applications.
You won't be able to edit the equations once you have transferred them,
but then you wouldn't want to, since you'd destroy TeX's careful layout
(the copied part appears as a single graphical object that can be moved
around, scaled, and cropped).


Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA