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- From: anneklin@acs.bu.edu (Patricia Anne)
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- Subject: Re: Copywrong and copyright (was: Good Bye Atari)
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- Date: 20 Dec 92 17:08:45 GMT
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- In article <11405@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
- >ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- >
- >>with GCC your input file is identicle to
- >>that you use with commercial "user-friendly" C compilers. TeX is totally
- >>different. I'd put TeX in the same class as Postscript, ie a document
- >>description language. It's just that no-one's written a word processor which
- >>outputs TeX yet.
- >
- >Yes they have.
- >
- >It's called LaTeX. I use the "Elvis" front-end module. Others use the "Emacs"
- >front-end module. Someone even uses FirstWord, outputting in ASCII as
- >the front-end module.
- >
-
- Actually, the "original" version of the Equation Editor for Microsoft
- Word for Windows (by original, I mean the full-up commercial version
- by a company other than uSoft, of which the Equation Editor is a
- stripped down version) had an option to output in TeX or LaTeX forms.
-
- I used TeX for about a year for typesetting fiction. It's very
- capable, but I got quite frustrated with it. I'd love it if someone
- would write a front-end that looked like WfW, and output TeX on
- command--giving you a great interface with a nice, system-independent
- output option.
-
- Not that it's ever likely to happen.
-
- Later,
-
-