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From: faustus@cad.UUCP (Wayne A. Christopher)
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Subject: Re: WYSIWYG
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 03:12:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 03:12:33 1985
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Let me toss in my 2 cents worth...  It seems that a lot of people are
thinking of a WYSIWYG system as something that will completely reformat
the page displayed every time you type a character.  Certainly this isn't
the correct thing -- when I am going to type 10 pages of straight text,
I don't care what it will look like.  I do want an interactive system,
however, when I am done and I'm previewing the stuff.  If I want a bit
more space here, or a word a little more over to one side, I don't
want to have to go back to the source and figure out exactly how
to do it, I want to point a mouse at the place I want to change and
do it, and have the editor figure out what to put in the source.
This is especially important for things like signs and flyers, where
exactly where things go is of utmost importance.  Trying to sit down
and figure out what to tell troff to make a flyer look good is not
a good thing...

	Wayne