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>Niether of these are always true.  With the Mac at least, the screen
>cannot come close to displaying what will go one when you print your
>document to a laser printer, so WSYWIG is a misnomer.  Also, most Mac
>processors are so painfully slow at doing anything substantial that it
>isn't worth bothering.

On the IBM-PC and clones (as well as top end workstations) is IS possible
to get essentially true WYSIWYG. There are display available at
1200x1600 (portrait format) (relatively common) up to 3000x4000
(at 300 dot per inch and not common at all). It would be easy to port
previewers for TeX (or other formatters) to these. Indeed, I would
have done it for one of the 1200x1600 ones except that I have not bben
able to find one that will work on my silly PS/2! I did a test to see
how slow it would have been at 1200 x1600 on my 386, and it would have been 
quit tolerable (assuming that the display was memory mapped). And there
is nothing except commercial inertia to prevent having this for
the point and click programs.

Doug McDonald