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In article <1990Mar3.012140.4928@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>Markup vs WYSIWYG seems to be one of those personal choices, like
>command line interfaces vs iconic interfaces. I suspect it correlates
>with personalities that like abstraction vs personalities that like
>demonstration.  Find the system you are comfortable with and use that.

Actually I have very little choice in the matter.  The only affordable
computing alternative for me is a graphics terminal, with modem and
printer.  For computing engines I use a Celerity and Cray YMP.  The
Cray runs a version of system V and the Celerity BSD 4.3 (both Unix).

I could have a very stressful life and drive to University to use a
Mac for every word processing task, or just do it at home at a more
leasurely pace with all the creature comforts.

Now like some of you, I was initiated to computing in the early 70's, when
the only word-processor available was a markup system--namely runnoff.
So Tex doesn't appear bad to me and likewise WYSIWYG is a fantastic
improvement.

But I have seen only two products for the Word 1 for WP that will
approximate the features of BibTex.  This is vital to me and as yet,
nothing I've seen is good enough to justify a new Workstation at home.

P.S. No!  I don't use the Cray for wordprocessing !! :-)
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