From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt) Subject: Re: Linux - the future? Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 04:09:45 GMT
In article <1cv4nbINNn7v@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk writes:
>Keith Smith (keith@ksmith.uucp) wrote:
>: [...]
>: I haven't even seen a decent "Word Processing" program freebie for Unix.
>
>Depends what you mean by 'decent' - TeX is probably the best text
>processing software I have ever seen and it has been freely available
>on most Unix platforms for a long time. Troff/nroff is not bad either
>and PD versions like mroff have been available for some time.
Well, yes, but these are not "word processing" programs.
These are text formatting language processors.
To a typical secretary (as an example of a [usually] non-technical
class of user), there's a huge difference in usability between TeX
and Word for Windows.
-- Any opinions above are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of SAI. Bryan Curnutt bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net