From: ewenm@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ewen Macdonald) Subject: Re: A Word Processor for Linux Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1993 02:42:41 GMT
jcg@world.std.com (Joan C Goodkind) writes:
>"Klaus Schneider" <UK0Q@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE> writes:
>>danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Dan Odom) writes:
>>> What's wrong with TeX?
>>Simply that TeX is nice for programmers but definetely _not_ a
>>word processor?
>>Klaus
>Your right, it is a typesetter. More powerfull then a word processor. :-)
>Not as easy to use to be sure, but if you learn it you might like it a lot.
>:-)
Seems to me this argument always ends up being irrelevant to Linux. Its
not a comparison of current word processors that is important to Linux.
No one questions the power of TeX. Its just the front end to it that
most people don't like, if there was a WYSIWIG word processor that used
TeX as its engine and gave you acess to the TeX source, and the ability
to EDIT the document in preview mode (not just view), have short cut
keys and pull down menus would both camps be happy ?
Ewen Macdonald
| Ewen Macdonald, The University of Melbourne, |
| Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, |
| Photonics Research Laboratory, |
| email: ewenm@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU |