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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
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Subject: Re: Word 5 Wishes
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Date: 17 Jan 91 15:07:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA)

In article <11183.9101171005@s4.sys.uea.ac.uk>, jrk@information-systems (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) writes:
>What I'd really like is a wysiwyg TeX- or SGML-based WP.  Anyone know of
>such a thing?

There is such a thing, but it doesn't run on the Mac.  You can get it
for Suns and other popular Unix boxes running X Windows.  It's called
"The Publisher", by ArborText, Inc., and it's an excellent WYSIWYG
document processor that uses SGML as its file format.  It includes
filters for LaTeX and WordPerfect 4.2.

I had the pleasure of trying out an evaluation copy some time ago, and
I really liked it.  It's very powerful, but still relatively easy to
use.  And as a LaTeX user, I appreciated being able to design
documents without having to flip through the LaTeX and TeX manuals.
Unfortunately, my company decided not to purchase it, so I haven't
used it in a while.

The Publisher is sort of like having the best of both worlds... except
that you have to go out and buy a Sun to run it.  I'd *love* a Mac
version, but I have a feeling that's just not going to happen.

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