From: amillar@netcom.com (Alan Millar) Subject: Re: GNU Public license and the future of Linux... Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 18:49:12 GMT
And magnus@johanna2.hsr.no didst rise up and spake forth:
>GNU Emacs with LaTeX (or sgml-mode and sgmls if you're into
>publishing) is the best system you can get. Professionals don't want
>or need WYSIWYG. They don't look for bells and whistles. They look for
>real features.
And what is a "real feature"? The ability to move your page
margins is a real feature. How you do it may seem to be
"bells and whistles" to you, but it matters to some others.
MANY people like to be able to look a page image on the screen
and see what impact it will have.
The technical writers I support want to spend their time writing,
not programming macros. Programmers who write computer
documentation love systems like TeX. That minor (by total number
of people in the world ) class of writers can hardly be called the
only professional writers in existence. Authors of art text books
and home improvement magazine articles are professional writers
also, whether you think so or not. These people deserve to be
saved from MS-DOS as much as you or me, but it isn't going to
happen with Emacs and LaTeX.
>I don't use oleo, but I have looked at gnuplot, and I have no idea
>where you have it from, that gnuplot "doesn't make it". It's used by
>scientists all over.
And you think that scientists are the only people in the
world who need good, cheap software, too?
- Alan
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