Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: TUG and TeX...
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.192157.8760@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
References: <9009040308.AA06677@lilac.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 19:21:57 GMT

In article <9009040308.AA06677@lilac.berkeley.edu> DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET writes:
>
>I once observed how the young woman in charge of this desktop publishing
>group printed out the same document 3 times trying to ensure that a header
>was centered on the page. She was loudly complaining that in a WYSIWYG
>system she cannot accurately position the text with the mouse, and what
>seemed centered on the screen was not centered on the printout.

I am just learning TeX, and I like it very much, but I have to say that the
reason this woman was having problems is that her DTP program is _NOT_
true WYSIWYG. To be WYSIWYG, a DTP program must be capable of showing the
_same_ fonts on the screen as on the printer. My DTP program (Calamus on
the Atari ST) uses the same Compugraphic outline fonts for screen and
printer, and allows you to zoom in the screen so that it corresponds
pixel-for-pixel with the printer output, whatever the resolution. I
understand that Macs are starting to use outline fonts in their DTP
programs too, but that they are much slower than Calamus's fonts. In
any case, the woman's problem was a bad IMPLEMENTATION, not a bad
CONCEPT (I may use TeX for my thesis, but never for a complex display
ad).


David Megginson
david@doe.utoronto.ca
meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca