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From: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum)
Subject: Re: NeXTStep 4.1.91 Released on April 1st : -)
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 12:44:45 GMT

In article <1991Apr1.063717.1209@nntp-server.caltech.edu> next-ug@gap.caltech.edu (Caltech and JPL Users of NeXT's) writes:
>REDCITY WOODS, CA -- Job Stevens, director of OVeRTheEdge, NeXT's new 
>Vaporware division, just announced NeXTStep 4.1.91 for release on 
>April 1st, 1991. ..
>
>	-TeX in a WYSIWYG format

except maybe this one.  Played around a couple days ago with what it would
take to do it and still keep both the TeX and the GUIform editable, and it's
quite an undertaking.  If you know any developer who might be seriously
interested, (a) I'd be amazed and (b) I wouldn't, but it's still a huge
project, with so many dependencies that it can be problematic.  How do you
deal, for example, with a bug in a TeXwrite document?  Scrub the section and
display an "Error in TeX code." box?

I know it's part of a Apr1 thing, but most of the software, as you note,
is not too far from reality.  Except maybe this one.  I'm not sure I'd enjoy
having to worry about users needing to debug a TeX document if they have
an error.

>
>Well, maybe this is Vaporware, but everything described here is well
>within the realm of possibility.  Let NeXT and your favorite third-party
>programmer know what you want, and maybe the stuff will be available in
>time for 4.1.92.
>
>Ernest Prabhakar   ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu   CaJUN President
>    "If we are out of minds, it is for God." -- II Corinthians 5:13a


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