Newsgroups: comp.text
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!robohack!woods
From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: End of a "happy" relationship
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 13:50:28 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.135028.27284@robohack.UUCP>
Keywords: desktop publishing
References: <1991Apr12.135248.9664@cbfsb.att.com>
Lines: 37

[Argh!  Another "broken" article -- you can't "Followup-To: poster"! ]

In article <1991Apr12.135248.9664@cbfsb.att.com> stevez@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (steven.a.zubatkin) writes:
> Well, netters, it seems that for myself and a select few others, the
> end of an era is coming.  My department is moving towards
> "standardizing" all software packages and management has asked me to
> "justify" the continued existence of Documenters Workbench (DWB).
> Since we have just invested in new 386SX PCs, he says what about using
> PC packages.  After 5 long years, my marriage may "end in divorce".

ARGH!  Is your management nuts!

Buy someone's AT&T System V (either 3.2 or 4.0) and keep on running
DWB!  Why, you can even get WYSIWYG with an X-11 previewer!

> However, the relationship has been a rocky one, obscure bugs ("Now WHY
> won't this work?"), no WYSIWYG, can't be used by non-UNIX people,
> etc.  Sigh . . . . 

It's not a bug -- it's a feature (or a misunderstanding by the user!).

> Anyway, I'm a relative neophyte when it comes to PC packages.  My

If you absolutely must keep running MS-DOS, find a DWB port -- there
are several:  MKS-SQPS (SoftQuad-PS), Elan....

I don't believe anyone who likes working with something like troff or
TeX will ever be happy with the current generation of desktop
publishing software.  I know I'm not!  When I want WYSIWYG, I preview
it on my 5620-DMD, which is usually only when I'm not near a printer.
On the other hand, I'm confident in controlling troff, and thus I
don't have to preview or draft-print things very often.
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

woods@{robohack,gate,eci386,tmsoft,ontmoh}.UUCP
+1 416 443-1734 [h]   +1 416 595-5425 [w]   VE3-TCP   Toronto, Ontario; CANADA