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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: the text processing
Keywords: WYSIWYG
Message-ID: <1590@pur-phy>
Date: 19 Oct 88 06:06:53 GMT
References: <6937@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <6937@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> jasmerb@coil.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Roger Jasmer) writes:
<In article <6597@pyr.gatech.EDU> you write:
<<I am interested in learning more about the text processing/desktop 
<<publishing available for the NeXT machine. It is wysiwig (what you see is 
<<what you get) or more a markup language like troff.
<
<This is just a wild guess, but I would tend to bet that the text processing
<and desktop publishing is VERY WYSIWYG! The display is Display Postscript
<and the laser printer is Postscript. It makes sense that things on the 
<screen are going to come out pretty much the same on paper.
<
<The laser printer is 400 dpi (WOW). What I want to know is the screen 
<resolution (in dpi).

Probably both, sort of.  I mean, it probably has troff, if you'd want to
use it.  It bundles Write Now, which should be WYSIWYG.  Screen resolution
is 94 dpi.  Why not 100?  I wouldn't mind my printed output turning out
to be somewhat smaller than on screen, but I would mind it if it turned
out to be the same size as on the screen, only with stretch marks.

Also, what desktop publishing?  As far as I know, there isn't one.  Also,
I have yet to hear of a paint/draw program.

What kinds of optimizations have they done to make Display Postsript 
acceptable?  How do 9 point fonts look on screen if they're not stored
as bitmaps?  Maybe in a year.  If it pans out.  And if I can get the
cash.  And if I can get a good price for my Mac II.  (I can just imagine.
Hey, want a Mac II with 5 Meg of memory for $1500?  No, $1400?  Aww. 
What do you mean you're going to buy a NeXT box?  Come on!)

-Sho