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- From: djm408@tijc02.uucp (David Marks)
- Subject: Re: Editors v. Word Processors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.141235.13385@tijc02.uucp>
- Organization: Siemens Industrial Automation, Johnson City TN
- References: <1992Jul23.014746.19361@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 14:12:35 GMT
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- From article <1992Jul23.014746.19361@hubcap.clemson.edu>, by tendico@hubcap.clemson.edu (Todd Endicott):
- > Greetings! This may seem like a simple, bozotic question, but...
- >
- > How would you differentiate between text editors and word processors?
- > For example, "Text editors don't do formatting type stuff, idiot!"
- >
- > Email or net replies as you see fit. (Epithets not really necessary.)
- > Thanks a bunch.
- > --
- > Todd Endicott
- > tendico@hubcap.clemson.edu
- > "Yow!"
-
- I would say that text editors view text as a collection of lines, while word
- processors view the text as a collection of paragraphs and pages. The reason
- that text editors "don't do formatting type stuff" is that they don't
- understand the concept of paragraphs or pages.
-
- With this in mind, I will now contradict myself (:-)) and say that the factors
- distinguishing text editors from word processors are somewhat blurry; some
- text editors do have a limited understanding of paragraphs. On the other hand,
- many word processors have evolved such that they are beginning to blur the
- distinction between them and desktop publishing.
-
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