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Re: GNU Applications

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
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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Subject: Re: GNU Applications
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