Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!princeton!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtune!codas!peora!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (who else) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.text Subject: Re: Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing Message-ID: <6902@ki4pv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 22:36:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ki4pv.6902 Posted: Thu Sep 11 22:36:59 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Sep-86 20:55:08 EDT References: <1246@kitty.UUCP> Organization: CompuData South, DeLand Lines: 22 Keywords: ``vi'' word-processing non-programmers j_random_luzer Xref: mnetor net.unix:5506 net.text:984 The reason that our customers have gone to "lyrix" instead of using what we use for \fBall\fR of our document preparation is simple: our customers need to print form letters &c. to their customers. There appears to be no easy or clean way to merge data into nroff -- the data would have to be prepared with extra new-lines, and as for iterating to print a hundred copies -- looks like it would be hairy. If someone out there has prepared a package that merges nroff and datafiles, I'd appreciate hearing of it. Otherwise, at some point I'll invent this wheel. Looks like it'd be easy enough to write -- a day should have it and the document on it ready for distribution. tanner andrews, systems compudata south, deland PS: I'm not sure if we could actually teach all of our customers' secretaries to use nroff without fear, but I don't think it's any more arcane than what they're using now. If I could just get someone to call nroff \fIuser-friendly\fR I think we'd have it made. -- Tanner Andrews