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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing for X
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Date: 11 Aug 90 16:47:30 GMT
References: <1990Aug9.064602.23310@athena.mit.edu> <1990Aug10.193250.16544@bcars267>
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In article <1990Aug10.193250.16544@bcars267> ppblais@bcars267.UUCP (Pierre P. Blais) writes:
> [...]
>    The Publisher is about halfway between a WYSIWYG and a tag-based
>interface.  This is very useful since your document is never automa-
>tically formatted for a specific printer or paper format.  A previewer
>allows you to look at the document on your W/S before/instead of prin-
>ting it.
>
>    On the other hand, it is quite buggy although it can still be used
>reasonably well (the bugs don't kill what I'm doing too often).

How about something that isn't buggy and is FREE.  The combination of
TeX and xdvi will apparently do the same thing, is solid, and free.
If it's of interest TeX is also available for the DOS PC, including
a nice previewer.

TeX is available from labrea.stanford.edu (ftp), or via tape and mail
for U of Washington.  Xdvi is available on expo or gatekeeper.dec.com.

Mike
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