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From: dgp@ncsc1.ATT.COM (Dennis Pelton x8876)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix
Summary: preconcieved ideas are the problem!
Message-ID: <516@ncsc1.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 89 19:14:35 GMT
References: <7868@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <590@lakart.UUCP> <19907@cup.portal.com> <1989Jul4.233559.17107@eci386.uucp>
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In article <1989Jul4.233559.17107@eci386.uucp>, woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes:

> I will assure you that people
> can be taught ed and troff in less time than it takes to teach
> the WP menu structure and basic WP editing and formatting.  The
> reall problem comes when you try to train someone who has
> pre-conceived notions about the task of electronic document
> production.
> 
> woods@{{utgpu,eci386,ontmoh,tmsoft}.UUCP,gpu.utcs.UToronto.CA,utorgpu.BITNET}

But these days almost everyone, certainly everyone who works in an
office, has pre-conceived notions about word-processors.  In particular,
almost everyone thinks that their favorite (or most recent) w-p
is the best and that every other w-p should act like *that*.

Dennis Pelton

Disclaimer: AT&T has its ideas, and I have mine.  I don't claim theirs
and they don't claim mine.