Re: embedded-command text systems

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From: carl
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1985 05:04

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> In article <731@othervax.UUCP> ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn) writes:
> >Tex, and the current UNIX tools for typeset text preparation, are
> >rapidly becoming dinosaurs - they probably have already become so.
> >Visible typography commands embedded in text, and separate H & J/page
> >makeup runs are passe
> 
> BALONEY. There is a place in the world for WYSIWYG systems that do not use
> embedded commands, but there is a large class of documents that 
> cannot be done at all well with the kind of interactive system that you are
> talking about. ... etc. etc .....

In support of Brian's contention, could anyone point me (us) to a WYSIWG
tool that will produce the table on page 17 of Lesk's 'tbl' paper?

Carl Brandauer

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