Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!oliveb!sun!cik@l.cc.purdue.edu From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: WYSIWYG vs programmed phototypsetting Message-ID: <70128@sun.uucp> Date: 26 Sep 88 16:24:44 GMT Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: comp Lines: 28 Approved: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com The problem with most text editors is that if one has non-ASCII information, it is impossible to have much of an idea of what things look like until it is printed in some form. When I am writing mathematical formulas, I want to have some idea of what it looks like; at this point I am not interested in the fine points. I also want to be able to correct typographical errors; I frequently think ahead of what I am typing, and for many reasons I hit wrong keys, even typing ASCII. This sometimes even holds with ASCII. I make no attempt to get columnar material lined up in TeX; it would take too long, and it would distract me from the communications process. We need processors to get good copy out. But we need processors to get good copy in _before_ we need the ones to get it out. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP) ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help