mam@philabs.philips.com (Mark A. Maxwell) (12/15/87)
I'm sure I am entering this discussion late, however after returning from SUG '87 in San Jose last week I began wondering who was using what WYSIWYG package and why... Here is what I have to date- We currently have a couple copies of Frame in use w/ a fair degree of success however, the reason we have so few copies at this point is cost. Both Interleaf and Frame have costs of ~$2,000- or more per copy. Key features for all three include * That they run under SunOs 3.2 or later and can be used within Suntools. * Can provide Postscript output. * Except import from existing formats, TeX, Nroff, Sunraster, etc. * Local and global style modifications. * Auto-indexing & TOC, dictionary, and equation package. ArborText seems to offer a couple of advantages over the others- The first is cost, for multiple copies of 25 or more the price is about half that of Frame or Interleaf. Second ArborText's equation editor, which they say is a key feature of their package, appears to be the best available. As it stands all three packages to offer quite a lot of performance but the cost per copy is what seems to be holding their use back. ------------------------------------------------ It would be nice to here comments from people out there using these packages either by e-mail or a follow-up.. T.I.A. + Maxz -- itzzall4phun- {ihnp4,uunet}!philabs!mam Philips Laboratories Mark A. Maxwell phone (914) 045-6399 ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun