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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Any good WYSIWIG desktop publishing software on UNIX Workstations?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 18:29:07 GMT
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In article <4662.647633645@ics.uci.edu>, jsweet@ICS.UCI.EDU (Jerry Sweet) writes:

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> If you can stand the learning curve and complicated maintenance
> required, WYSIWYG document production systems still can't beat TeX or
> LaTeX on platforms supported, heterogeneous environment support,
> price, extensibility or hackability.  You pay one way or the other,
> though: time and brainpower to deal with TeX, or $$$ for WYSIWYG.

What I would like to see is a WYSI(MOL)WYG setup with files directly
translatable into things such as TeX.  It is not important when writing
a paper at the terminal to know _exactly_ how it will look; a fair 
approximation is quite enough.  I am quite familiar with TeX, and I
do write papers directly in it.  However, I consider it a weird system,
loaded with thousands of conventions, and I have been surprised too
often when I print it at the errors made.  I believe that we can get
what is asked for.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
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