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Article #746Re: Which is better? Textprocessing langs or DeskTop publishing pgms?
From: Ken Yap
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 19:09
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 19:09
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| I think that the WYSIWYG systems remove most of the system-dependent |vagaries from the design process and let the designer doodle electronically. |This is more productive than repeatedly debugging your formats with the |edit-print-think loop that troff and TeX get you into. This is particularly |true of strange layouts, like ad copy or newsletters. Of course, your WYSIWYG |tool should have a really fluid, consistent, easy to use interface. A layout design tool would be nice to have but I haven't missed it much. I just type in the text and use one of several standard formats. One thing I will not give up is the ability to edit from a dumb terminal over a modem. Many WYSISYG systems tie one to a workstation. Which one is preferred depends on the job at hand. Academics writing papers will have a different answer from newsletter editors. We have both types of systems here each with their adherents. Pick your favourite religion. Can we go on to something else now?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!ken From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Which is better? Textprocessing langs or DeskTop publishing pgms? Message-ID: <1989Sep7.190918.6089@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 7 Sep 89 19:09:18 GMT Sender: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 19