Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.apps:6421 comp.text.tex:7687 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!cie!scavo From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Why does Mac output not look as good as LaTex? Summary: what's wrong with wysiwyg AND TeX in one software package? Message-ID: <1991May28.190051.5770@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 28 May 91 19:00:51 GMT References: <20081@cs.utexas.edu> <1991May20.223955.22343@midway.uchicago.edu> <26376@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1445@mephisto.edu> Reply-To: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) Followup-To: comp.text.tex Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange Lines: 31 [followups directed to comp.text.tex] In article rolfl@hedda.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes: > >'! No me digas ! TeX does not nessecarily mathematicize typesetting >aesthetics. TeX allows anything that lead types allowed you to, and more. You >can even keep small changes on one page _from_ recomputation of all the >following pages. The comparison with WYSIWYG word processors doesn't keep up >because TeX offers you the ability to take any degree of control, something >that word processors can't if you want to keep their operation user friendly. >Word processors have the great disadvantage that they try to conform to the >notion that `"it's more important that programs are easy to use, than that they >do what they're supposed to do" Few people will argue that TeX output is anything short of fantastic, but I for one can not write in TeX. I don't mean transcribe from paper, but compose in TeX at the key- board. Maybe it's just me, but I wonder how many are able to do this? For that matter, I wonder what proportion of TeX-produced articles, papers, and books are actually typeset by their respective authors? Half maybe? My point is that a TeX program with a good wysiwyg frontend, or a wysiwyg twp with TeX translation capabilities, will make technical writing and mathematical typesetting skills available to everyone. The same thing happened to desktop publishing, and I see nothing wrong it. Indeed, I'm having a difficult time getting along without it. Tom Scavo scavo@cie.uoregon.edu