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Article #548Re: WYSIWYG = DIY (=hubris)
From: Victor Eijkhout
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 11:07
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 11:07
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In article <1438@hydra.gatech.EDU> rh26@prism.gatech.EDU (Howard,Robert L) writes: >In article <387@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> eykhout@wn2.UUCP (Victor Eijkhout) writes: >caps. All you need to do is go to wherever the HEAD style is defined, delete >the bold and italic codes, and add the 'use all caps' code. (Now I will >admit you're in trouble if there is no such code but the point is that it is >simple to do.) But is it that simple? I know that by now I can program most everything a designer asks in TeX, but the wysiwyg systems I've seen look like somebody threw together a number of mechanisms until s/he was convinced there were sufficient special cases to cover most of what someone would want. There is hardly any programmability. The dividing line is becoming thinner and thinner, with wysiwyg systems getting style sheets, I admit. Victor
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!kunivv1!eykhout From: eykhout@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: WYSIWYG = DIY (=hubris) Message-ID: <390@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 11 Aug 89 11:07:45 GMT References: <210927@<1989Jul28> <8800031@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <14903@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <387@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <1438@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: eykhout@wn2.UUCP (Victor Eijkhout) Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 17