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Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX

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From: Mats G L|fdahl
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

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