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In article <1991Dec22.221302.19844@cs.ubc.ca> manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:
>
>I recently used a commercial product which shall remain nameless here;
>suffice it to say that it is an MS Windows word processing program
>marketed by a company of which the LPF urges a boycott. This program did
>indeed include TeX's math typesetting (used via an icon system which is
>much more tedious than TeX's control codes). However, it couldn't space
>properly, kerning was only as provided by the font, and ligatures didn't
>exist. Maybe it's ok for producing letters, but I sure wouldn't want to
>use it for setting anything important.
>
>Yes, Knuth's code is strange verging upon the outright peculiar; yes,
>TeX wants some hideous fonts that few people really like (though, thanks
>to Tom Rokicki, PS support is just fine); and, yes, raw TeX has the most
>revolting programming language I've seen since perhaps Trac or Snobol3.
>But it does the job. I sure would like a WYSIWYG front end to it (not
>the same as previewing, thanx), but TeX/dvips is a testament to the real
>value of free software.

Although I haven't used it, I believe the "doc" program included in 
InterViews 3.0 is a WYSIWYG document preparation tool (X Windows based)
which uses a variant (subset?) of LaTeX to represent and store documents.
I suppose with the necessary TeX macros, you can then use TeX to format
the document, yielding the usual high-quality results.

The InterViews package itself uses a simplified TeX "composition model"
(boxes and glue) to "compose" objects in an X Window.

You might want to post a question to comp.windows.interviews for more
information.

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