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From: jenny@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Kathryn Hargreaves)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Dichotomy in text formatting.
Message-ID: <11294@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 20:27:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 20:27:52 1985
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Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Keywords: WYSIWYG, WYSIAYG, batch, interactive.

First, a minor quibble:  WYSIWYG systems are not good for
professional quality advertising, signs, and so forth, as
Brian Reid mentions in his list. At least, no type shop I
know is going to start using Macintoshes or Suns or the like
to start producing their ads.

Second, yes, systems that combine the compiler approach and
the interactive one exist---in practically every typesetting
shop. The Compugraphic, Varityper, Alphatype, et. al. systems
have input files that look similar to the compiler
formatters---but they also have dedicated displays (at much
higher resolutions than Suns or such, for the most part.) so
the operator can see what (s)he is getting before using the
2400 dpi typesetter to print it.

Not that any computer systems folks (including me) are likely
to have such things on their desks soon (the cheapest one I
saw was about $8,000, I think.) but I thought I'd point out
that TeX, troff, Scribe, and laser printers are not the
be-all and end-all of typesetting.

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