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From: alex@xios.UUCP (Alex B Laney)
Newsgroups: net.text,net.unix
Subject: Re: Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing
Message-ID: <312@xios.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 09:52:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: xios.312
Posted: Fri Sep 26 09:52:53 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Sep-86 02:15:40 EDT
References: <1246@kitty.UUCP> <1242@inuxc.UUCP>
Reply-To: alex@xios.UUCP (Alex B Laney)
Organization: Xios systems corp, The Renaissance(tm) people
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Xref: dciem net.text:1360 net.unix:9045
Summary: 

In article <1242@inuxc.UUCP> lar@inuxc.UUCP (L Reid) writes:
>Although flexible, nroff/troff is not easy to learn for non-technical
>people.  I know managers who prefer other WP software to nroff/troff.
Let me add -- nroff/troff is not easy to master period. As someone who has
occasionally edited macros, let me say they are never "Perfect". At any time
that non-computer people tried to learn vi and nroff, it would always
backlog them. I have not seen the 4.3 "me" macros, but I know the 4.2 "me"
macros have bugs in them. (Like everything else on 4.2 :-) The Unix standard
packages are for the converted.


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