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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: so-called 'power' of TeX/Scribe/troff
Message-ID: <178@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 09:58:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 09:58:20 1985
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In article <2455@glacier.ARPA>, reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes:
>    [...] I don't want the average hack at a
>    word processing terminal to be using a text formatter that will let him
>    have any control whatsoever over the appearance of the finished document.
> 

Thank you, Brian.  You have put our basic difference of opinion very clearly,
far more clearly than I could ever have done.  I'm not sure I qualify as
"...the average hack at a word processing terminal ..." but I certainly *do*
want to have control over the appearance of my finished document, which you
have very successfully prevented me from doing with Scribe.  That's why I
will never use it again.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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