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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: embedded-command text systems
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 19:00:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 19:00:55 1985
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From Ed Nather:
> In article <1861@glacier.ARPA>, reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes:
> > BALONEY. There is a place in the world for WYSIWYG systems that do not use
> > embedded commands, but there is a large class of documents that 
> > cannot be done at all well with the kind of interactive system that you are
> > talking about...
> ...
> This would perhaps be more convincing had the author not written an embedded
> command text formatting program.

I find it quite the contrary.  Brian's position certainly carries the
weight of both his experience and his convictions.  What's wrong with
someone who believes in embedded-command systems writing an embedded-
command system?  (You want he should write a wysiwyg system???)
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