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Article #74030Re: GNU Applications
From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 10:57
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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet Computer Science Department Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,deb8597d97cb3d91 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-15 08:47:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!ira.uka.de!THD-News!iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!schrod From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU Applications Message-ID: <1991Jul15.105724.13241@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> Date: 15 Jul 91 10:57:24 GMT References: <9107132248.AA10375@wubios> <1991Jul14.012741.21737@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de (The Usenet-News System) Reply-To: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet (Joachim Schrod) Distribution: gnu Organization: TU Darmstadt Lines: 27