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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Subject: Re: Troff vs FrameMaker Productivity
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.044538.27578@news.eng.convex.com>
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- References: <HAMM.92Jul22094612@toto.austoto.sps.mot.com> <1992Jul22.231152.4991@informix.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:45:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.231152.4991@informix.com> robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
- >In article <HAMM.92Jul22094612@toto.austoto.sps.mot.com>
- >hamm@austoto.sps.mot.com (Steve Hamm) writes:
-
- >>Lest I be misconstrued, there is
- >> no doubt that WYSIWYG is more productive for advertising
- >> layout, for pictures, and anytime form is more important
- >> than content.
-
- >Yes, if the content is text, and if readers will be just as happy no
- >matter how it's formatted, you can't beat an all-text environment. WYSIWYG
- >can be a real waste - and add a lot of complexity - in that case.
-
- Hmmm. So TROFF is useful--as long as it isn't needed to do any formatting?
- Yes, I suppose so...any lousy tool is "useful" in this sense, as long as
- you don't have to use it.
-
- >The idea of tossing everything into a GUI when the terminal ends up just
- >used as a vt-100 emulator has always struck me as an incredible waste.
- >WYSE terminals could replace half the GUIs in use.
-
- How many terminal windows can you open on your WYSE? I usually run with at
- least four on my Sun, each open on a different host. _And_ applications
- like FrameMaker that don't run too well on the WYSE.
-
-
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