eykhout@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Victor Eijkhout) (08/16/89)
In article <1499@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: >WYSIWYG systems are the only reasonable thing for someone writing the >paper. Mark-up languages are the only reasonable thing for someone realistic enough to know that he is a writer, not a typographical designer. >When I compose my articles, I prefer to putting the stuff on >the screen instead of on pieces of paper. When I compose my articles, I am a mathematician; I do my layout macro writing on seperate days. Furthermore, I want every sentence to start on a new line in my input. My eyes don't want to be tortured by a Times Roman at 70dpi. >I have written papers using >TeX, and it is a real pain. I have tried to do even simple documents in MSWord and Ragtime, and it is a real pain. >There is no reason why a WYSIWYG system cannot be augmented into a TeX- >like system. There is no reason why TeX cannot be augmented with a wysiwig-like user interface, while retaining its power. >In any case, it should produce output which can be easily >and mainly mechanically converted into a typesetting language. Right. But this is the trivial part. Well, this discussion don't seem to be converging. Fortunately typesetting systems are, with style sheets in wysiwyg systems, and two-window TeX on Amiga, or the VorTeX project. Victor.