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Article #2689Asterix - product info wanted
From: Stephen Frede
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 03:51
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 03:51
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We are looking for a text formatting system to supplement our extensive use of troff. It needs to be WYSIWIG but have as much of the flexibility of troff as possible, so that naive users can create documents easily and quickly, but complex macros (or whatever the product calls them) are possible. We've looked at FrameMaker, but the demo version we have doesn't seem to have all the functionality we would like. I went to a demo of a product called Asterix, which has a very powerful (they claim) macro language called ELF (unfortunate name, given SVr4), which may do most of the things that we want. Has anybody used this product? Could you summarise the advantages, disadvantages you have found with it, or just mail me so I can ask some specific questions. Regards, - Stephen Frede Softway Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 2 698 2322; Fax: +61 2 699 9174; Telex: AA27987 domain: stephenf@softway.sw.oz.au UUCP: ...!uunet!softway.sw.oz!stephenf
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!swift!suite.sw.oz.au!stephenf From: stephenf@suite.sw.oz.au (Stephen Frede) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Asterix - product info wanted Summary: Request for comments on Asterix WP product Keywords: asterix wysiwyg Message-ID: <stephenf.671169069@suite.sw.oz.au> Date: 9 Apr 91 03:51:09 GMT Sender: news@softway.sw.oz.au (Usenet) Organization: Softway Pty Ltd Lines: 26