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From: dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG = DIY (=hubris)
Message-ID: <422@npiatl.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 15:54:49 GMT
References: <210927@<1989Jul28> <8800031@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <14903@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <387@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Reply-To: dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly)
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In article <387@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> eykhout@wn2.UUCP (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>In article <14903@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> hugo@griggs (Peter Su) writes:
>>I claim that WYSIWIG are overly concerned with form, and no concerned
>>enough about with the logical operations that result in the form 
>>that you want.
>
>Question: can someone tell me that with a wysiwig it is just
>as easy to make a global design change?
>


Several WYSIWYG systems have implemented "style sheets" that define the
layout and look of a block of text.  By changing the style sheet you
can make a global change on all text using that sheet.  This is NOT anywhere
near as powerful as macros.  But it is a step in the right direction.

I have heard that Framemaker goes even farther towards global design, 
and still provides a screen preview and interactive layout. 

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