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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Follow up uestion
Message-ID: <1991May2.155243.577@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 2 May 91 15:52:43 GMT
References: <19852@slice.ooc.uva.nl>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <19852@slice.ooc.uva.nl>, by morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS):

> The UNIX user I was talking about in my previous posting is utterly
> convinced that he can produce FAR FAR SUPPERIOR output with his trusted
> text formatted processing than with my Macs text WYSIWYG processing.
> I don't personnally agree with him but i'd be interested to learn what
> the general impressions from the net are.

And I can call spirits from the vasty deep -- they just don't come when I
call them...

98% of what I want a word processor to do, something like Word or FullWrite
will do with 10% of the time, effort, and pain of doing it with troff.
For the last 2%, I'll cons up the image I want with some APPROPRIATE tool
(Photoshop, or SuperPaint, or Excel, or...) and pop the image into the 98%
word processor.  With publish/subscribe in system 7, this will become even
more natural.

I did my Ph.D. thesis with troff in 1974.  It was great technology for
1974.  I've since recycled those brain cells...
-- 

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com