barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (03/28/91)
In article <9103272122.AA00912@lhs.woodside.ca.us> dick@lhs.woodside.ca.us (dick benster) writes: > > > Page One Shows Off Text-Book Publishing Proof-of-Concept > >Bruce Henderson of Pages Corp. (San Diego) gave BANG members a >privileged look at the forthcoming Page One object-oriented page >layout program, I hope they put in good support for typesetting equations---if they do, Page One would be a good replacement for TeX and LaTeX (which also allow you to have style files specifiying layout style, but in a grungier way). It would also be useful to have a Page One -> TeX filter, so that TeX versions could be had for those behind the times folks. Alternatively, someone should (are you out there Leslie Lamport) put a NeXT front end on LaTeX. What it could benefit from is sort of a WYSIWIG graphical front end, allowing you to see the final form as you enter it, to drag and drop graphics, set up the style in a friendly way, etc. In fact, all one realy needs to retain of LaTeX is the smart typesetting of mathematics and the programability (i.e. defining your own environments, styles, macros, etc). There would be a good market such among academics, if it ever comes to pass. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (03/29/91)
Yes, but it would take half the fun out of writing a paper in TeX. And using something like that (there are such interfaces available on the Macintosh) is much more time consuming than straight EeXt/LaTeX typing (with a good set of keyboard macros). Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET