Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX

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From: Mats G L|fdahl
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:11

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Thomas M. Breuel writes:

   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.
   [...]

Yes, and you would still have that advantage with an approach similar
to what I'm proposing!

	/Mats
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