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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re
Message-ID: <2733@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 04:09:20 GMT
References: <8452@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <76000207@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <76000207@uiucdcsp> gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I've had the same frustration with full WYSWYG editors.  My friends
>and I used a full-WYSWYG editor while working for Xerox, and still we
>typed in our papers using a straight text editor, then imported them
>to WYSWYG (STAR) for the final touches.  My conclusion that WYSWYG was a
>closet failure for anything but page layout tasks.

  Why is being able to see what your output is going to look like a falure.
Then presentation Manager, and the Macintosh and Windowing enviroments in
general are failures also?   I don't think so.  People who can't understand
why we need WYSWYG are failures, and personally I like to be able to see
what my work is going to look like while I'm working on it.


David M. O'Rourke

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