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From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG = DIY (=hubris)
Message-ID: <1059@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 89 16:21:00 GMT
References: <210927@<1989Jul28> <8800031@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <387@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <1499@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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In article <1499@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>I have written papers using TeX, and it is a real pain.

Have you tried using LaTeX instead?

>There is no reason why a WYSIWYG system cannot be augmented into a TeX-
>like system.

Perhaps you don't know how much TeX really does.  Although it is
probably true that there are no reasons it can't be done, there are
*many* reasons why it is very difficult to do.  Just ask the people
that are working on "ITeX", an incremental version of TeX.  You need
something that works incrementally to do a decent WYSIWYG system.

		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University