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Re: GNU Applications

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From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 10:57
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In article <1991Jul14.012741.21737@agate.berkeley.edu>, jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
> 
> In article <9107132248.AA10375@wubios> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
> >The two most important computer applications today are Word Processing
> >and Spreadsheets.  The GNU project is remiss in not making these
> >programs a top priority.  -David-
> 
> There is a Gnu spreadsheet, Oleo.  And while there is no WYSIWYG
> word processing program, there is Emacs together with groff and
> Ghostscript, which allow for typesetting.

IMHO, we don't need a WYSIWYG word processing program. What we need is
a markup system (of course, with a WIMP interface for convenience). I
think, SGML-compliance will be more important in the future than a
Pagemaker-like system or such stuff. 
   Btw, why do we need groff when (La)TeX is available? (Perhaps on
more systems than groff ever will be.)

Just my $0.02 ;-)

--
Joachim

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Subject: Re: GNU Applications
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