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Article #944Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX
From: Mats G L|fdahl
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:07
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:07
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David Howell writes: OK, about this editing. First of all, Why? Because I lake the TeX way of doing things. I just happen to think that it could be improved by adding some of the benefits from a wysiwyg environment. If you want to kind of look at it while editing, do t in WordPerfect, for example. You get to see all your changes, and the majority of functions (including lists, headers, and sectioon markers) could be translated into TeX source by a (reasonably sophisticated) macro. No no, then you don't have the ability to quickly switch from one mode of editing (TeX source) to the other (wysiwyg) and back. But hey, let's say you really want TeX editing. OK, first of all assume a far more powerful computer than just about anybody has sitting on their desk right now, powerfull enough to TeX 2 pages of text 100 times a second. Oh, and lots of memory. [...] What if you don't care about page breaks until at the end of your editing session? Then it would be enough to reformat the current paragraph. /Mats -- Mats Lofdahl, Stockholm Observatory, S-133 36 Saltsjobaden | +46 - 8 16 44 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: lofdahl@astro.su.se | Bitnet: grodan@sekth | Sunet: royacs::lofdahl -- Mats Lofdahl, Stockholm Observatory, S-133 36 Saltsjobaden | +46 - 8 16 44 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: lofdahl@astro.su.se | Bitnet: grodan@sekth | Sunet: royacs::lofdahl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!grodan From: grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Mats G L|fdahl) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX Message-ID: <GRODAN.92Apr10100702@cyklop.nada.kth.se> Date: 10 Apr 92 09:07:02 GMT References: <GRODAN.92Apr7122044@cyklop.nada.kth.se> <1992Apr8.031655.590@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> <GRODAN.92Apr8190652@cyklop.nada.kth.se> <1992Apr8.192622.15065@u.washington.edu> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: howell@blegga.u.washington.edu's message of 8 Apr 92 19:26:22 GMT Originator: grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se Nntp-Posting-Host: cyklop.nada.kth.se