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From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Brief overview of FullWrite (Re
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Date: 18 May 88 14:47:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    May 18 09:47:00 1988
Posted: Wed May 18 10:47:00 1988


>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.

I can't agree.  It may be that some WYSIWYG editors are slow enough to
be painful to use, but they are not all that way.  I do a fair amount
of writing, and do it all with such an editor (WriteNow, if that matters).

I think the real problem is that the right combination of features/per-
formance has not been found in a lot of programs.  And that may be because
it makes good ad copy to say ``Our word processor does it ALL'', while to say
``Our word processor is really FAST'' doesn't seem to make it nowadays.

>Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
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