Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix
Message-ID: <1989Jun30.184616.21916@eci386.uucp>
Date: 30 Jun 89 18:46:16 GMT
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In article <1989Jun28.044952.7861@ctr.columbia.edu> seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes:

>The actual reason why there are no WordPerfect-like (or WYSIWYG-like)
>editors on BSD or SV or SunOS is because ASCII terminals can't do
>graphics (like fonts or scaling or most anything).

Neither can WordPerfect.

[ sizzle ;-)  In 4.2 WP you get 8 fonts.  Different sizes count as different 
fonts.  3 of them are usually landscape.  Proportional printing 
works *only* in *one* font at *one* size.  WP files are really difficult 
to make reasonably printer independent (eg: different indents on every 
printer).  I'll take ed, nroff and an ASR33 (well, almost an ASR33...) 
to WP 4.2 any day.]

Actually, there are lots of WYSIWYG-like editors available on UNIX -
Lyrix, CrystalWriter, LEX (gag), Qoffice (gag. gag.)  SunOS now even has
a MacWrite clone.  Hell, you can even get WordPerfect 4.2 on a UNIX
box!
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