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From: korn@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG
Message-ID: <11272@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 16:07:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 16:07:41 1985
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Summary: Another angle to this discussion


There's an interesting arguement to be made for WYSIWYG editors that I've
yet to see in this discussion.  When composing on a WYSIWYG system (as
I do), I find that I'm much more creative.  Because I can interactively
get a feel for what my essay (paper, thesis, whatever) is going to look
like as I type it, I find I tend to write better.  Whether this is the
case for everyone, most people, or just a personal thing with me
I really couldn't say.  But whatever the reason, I'm staying with my
mac over TeX, Scribe, etc. etc. for essays, and other such creative works.

This has no bearing (of course, but I figure, if I can stop a flame...:-)
on the output.  I use a LaserWriter b/c my Profs will accept it (and actually
much prefer it to typewritten material).  With the Linotronic 300P, and
2540 dpi resolution (well beyond an earlier mentioned 600 dpi) driven by
PostScript, all that I'm waiting for is a combo of PageMaker, MacDraw,
MS-Word, and a 68020 running at > 16 Mhz.  True, I'm a *novice* when it
comes to typesetting, but typesetting output isn't the direction I'm
heading in (although physical quality of the output will come in months),
nor am I (as the author of a creative work) that interested in rivers,
et. al. I'd pay a typesetter to do that.  If my computer, that's already
WYSIWYG b/c I compose better on it can do all that automatically, or
has a preset idea that I can learn to fiddle with (open up the hood and
poke around), I'd be in heaven. 

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