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From: ralph@ralmar.UUCP (Ralph Barker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.text
Subject: Re: writers' work bench
Message-ID: <407@ralmar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 22:09:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: ralmar.407
Posted: Wed Aug 12 22:09:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 08:38:14 EDT
References: <176@bernina.UUCP> <268@unirot.UUCP>
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Keywords: wwb, writers work bench, grammer analysis, spelling, writing
Summary: Wrong WorkBench
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:3607 comp.text:1060

In article <268@unirot.UUCP>, patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) writes:
> 
> You can buy the Writer's Workbench in source form from AT&T.  In binary
> form you can buy copies from Elan (415) 322-2450, Textware (617) UNI-TEXT,
> [etc]

All of these WB's (WorkBenches) get confusing, and I think Pat has
succumbed to this frailty.  The binaries for DWB Rel 2.0, or Documenter's 
Workbench(tm), ARE included with Eroff(tm), the laser typesetting system
from Elan Computer Group (for which I am a dealer, source of training and
support.)  Some version of DWB, I'm sure, also forms the basis of the other
formatting packages mentioned in Pat's article.

WWB, or Writer's Workbench, however, is NOT part of the same package.  At
least when I talked to AT&T's Product Manager for Writer's Workbench a
couple of months ago, WWB was ONLY available for AT&T's 3B Series (3B2
and "up" - NOT the 3B1).  She also indicated at that time that they had no
(then) current plans to make the source available to third parties.  The
current release of WWB available on the 3B's is supposed to be an
"enhanced" and expanded version of the "old" Writer's Workbench (portions
of which are included in BSD).  The current version of WWB is discussed in
Narain Gehani's Document Formatting book (Silicon Press, 1986), and was
reviewed in UNIX/World Magazine about a year ago.  

Think of DWB as the "n/troff stuff" (nroff, troff, mm, eqn, tbl, pic, etc.),
and WWB as the "style and diction stuff".  As an aside, both of these
"WB's" are trademarks of AT&T.

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