Re: To WYSIWYG or not to WYSIWYG

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From: Dick Dunn
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1985 09:29

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From Barry Shein:
> WYSIWYG is great for short, simple documents (very short, very
> simple).  It is nearly useless for anything more than a few pages, and
> the uselessness seems to go up as the square of the size of the
> document.

This doesn't help us at all.  What is the source of the uselessness?  (I
don't find that it helps me if someone says "this is useless" but doesn't
tell me why?  At the least, I'd like to know if the perceived problem is
remediable...)

> ...with what I have seen I would hate to have to use a WYSIWYG for a long
> document.

WHY?!?!
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Are you making this up as you go along?

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Subject: Re: To WYSIWYG or not to WYSIWYG
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