🚀 go-pugleaf

From: Marshall Rose <mrose%NRTC@USC-ECL.arpa>

I saw a very slick demonstration of an interleaf workstation a couple of
days ago and I was wondering if anyone would care to make some comments
one way or the other on the system.

Basically, they supply a lot of software that you run on a SUN workstation.
The final output device is an Imagen-8/300 which is on an ethernet.
The user-interface is the usual icon-drive stuff, but what's interesting
is that they represent documents and the like as structured objects and,
when you change the attribute of an object (e.g., a paragraph), they
update the entire document in "real-time".  They also integrate graphics
with the system very smoothly.  In a nutshell, interleaf is very much a
what-you-see-is-what-you-get system.

What I'm interested in is: what quality of decisions does the system make
when it comes to line/page-breaking and so on.  The software looks like it
runs really fast on a SUN when you change the document, so I suspect that
it's being rather simple-minded about things (compared to the high-quality
decisions that TeX would make about things).

/mtr

ps: let's avoid flames about WYSIWYG systems and try and stick to the merits
of the interleaf system.  thanks!