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From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG
Message-ID: <3095@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 12:06:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 26 12:06:17 1985
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> There are valid arguments for each style of text layout programs, so why argue
> which is best?  Why not work at rolling them together?  I think the ultimate
> would be a Mac-like WYSIWYG human interface, except what you do is recorded in
> a text-manipulation language and can be "cut" and "pasted", only with
> parameters, global settings, etc.

Well, it wasn't Mac-like, but there was a paper given at the San Diego (or
maybe Toronto) Usenix on a system called "author" by the folks at TRW. What
Author did was allow someone to (kindof) format on a VT100 in a WYSIWYG mode
and spit troff source out the rear end.

Also, you can use something like w2t to take a macwrite subset and convert it
to troff -me. What might even be better (someday) is to start building tools
that talk Postscript and get rid of the middlemen...
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