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Article #74035Re: GNU Applications
From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 17:00
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 17:00
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>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. I think this is a good idea. With a markup system some order could perhaps be achieved in this chaotic world of different formats like TeX, LaTeX, SLaTeX, texinfo, stexinfo, troff etc. etc. Also, a GNU texinfo document browser with some formatting capabilities (different fonts, sizes, italics, indices as pop-up menus etc.) would be a good addition to the user-friendliness of the system. > Btw, why do we need groff when (La)TeX is available? (Perhaps on >more systems than groff ever will be.) Well, many programs from the net come with manual pages in troff format and it's nice to be able to format them. //Jyrki
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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 12:42:46 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!news.funet.fi!fuug!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU Applications Message-ID: <1991Jul15.170004.10004@nntp.hut.fi> Date: 15 Jul 91 17:00:04 GMT References: <9107132248.AA10375@wubios> <1991Jul14.012741.21737@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Jul15.105724.13241@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Distribution: gnu Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod) Nntp-Posting-Host: sauna.cs.hut.fi