Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: a word-processor for UNIX Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 89 21:51:25 GMT References: <20306@adm.BRL.MIL> <26558@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8467@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <26567@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1552@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mcclaren@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 24 Jul 89 20:13:48 GMT In <1552@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> mcclaren@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Tim McClarren): TM> But then why is it that more and more I pick up a book, flip TM> through a couple of pages, and lo & behold, there it is right TM> alongside the copyright and Lib. of Congress info -- "This book TM> written and typeset with a Macintosh II and Microsoft Word" or TM> some such? I dunno...maybe I read too much popular lit./media, TM> but I've not seen a whole lot of "This book written under vi, and TM> typeset with LaTeX/*roff on Bob & Jim's UNIX(c) box." Because UNIX people are too cool; much more so than the average PC luser. What really makes the difference to the people getting the book is the results, not what hardware and software got it there. If I need a book I don't care if some old geezer in a grimy print shop made it or if some yuppie in a blue suit at a MacIntoaster wisked it off in time for his game of racquetball. It's just that the yuppie dweebs care more about that kind of baloney. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))