Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!delta.eecs.nwu.edu!phil From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: WYSIWYG = DIY (=hubris) Message-ID: <1059@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 16:21:00 GMT References: <210927@<1989Jul28> <8800031@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <387@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <1499@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 18 In article <1499@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: >I have written papers using TeX, and it is a real pain. Have you tried using LaTeX instead? >There is no reason why a WYSIWYG system cannot be augmented into a TeX- >like system. Perhaps you don't know how much TeX really does. Although it is probably true that there are no reasons it can't be done, there are *many* reasons why it is very difficult to do. Just ask the people that are working on "ITeX", an incremental version of TeX. You need something that works incrementally to do a decent WYSIWYG system. William LeFebvre Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University