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Subject: Re: WSYWIG vs. Batch Debate
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From: rochester!steinmetz!davidsen@steinmetz..arpa (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Date: 6 May 87 20:10:55 GMT
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY

I recently had to make some changes in a document which came to
me in "scrip" (or 'script", it was spelled both ways). I used
the "FinalWord" package on a PC, working with downloaded
proportional fonts in an HP JaserJet+. It could format the text
to a file in < 2 minutes, including references, index, and table
of contents. Output was in six fonts, proportionally spaced.

What I'm saying is that batch formatters don't have to be slow.
This document was about 54 pages long proportional or 75 fixed
width, and I can certainly live with that speed.

I have started looking at "Manuscript", which does bold, italic,
underscore, fonts, tables and equations. I haven't used it
enough to evaluate it, and I ran it on an 80386 box so I can't
give any meaningful estimate of how fast it really is.

I use troff whenever possible...

-- 
bill davidsen			sixhub \	ARPA: wedu@ge-crd.arpa
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