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From: gustav@swanee.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac System Suggestions?
Message-ID: <324@swanee.OZ>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 06:34:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: swanee.324
Posted: Wed Apr 29 06:34:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 06:40:36 EDT
References: <804@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> <76000009@uiucdcsp> <690@unccvax.UUCP> <692@unccvax.UUCP>
Organization: El. & El. Eng., Uni. of Western Australia
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Summary: wysiwyg not good for big jobs

In article <692@unccvax.UUCP>, cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) writes:
> 
> 	Tell me this Joe, why does MS Word take 7 minutes to repaginate a
> 91k document on a MAC Plus, and another 3 to save the document. I hate to
> think what will happen when my thesis is 300 pages, let alone 61 measly
> pages. I am not sure about other users out there, but for me, the MAC II
> can not arrive soon enough.  Hopefully that machine will reduce disk I/O
> by 80%.
> 
It's not a productive idea to use wysiwyg for writing 300 pages long
documents like books or theses. To use TeX or troff is much faster and
easier. You can get TeX for Mac these days (which is apparently a very
good implementation). Why not to have a go at it?

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