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- From: richard@op.ph.ic.ac.uk (Richard Syratt )
- Subject: Re: Copywrong and copyright (was: Good Bye Atari)
- References: <1fnv8cINN3r1@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec05.131436.23872@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <11405@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <105358@bu.edu>
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- Organization: Imperial College, London University
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:28:49 GMT
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- In article <105358@bu.edu>, anneklin@acs.bu.edu (Patricia Anne) writes:
- |> 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.
-
- Well, actually it has been done...
- A suite of things such as a word processor and a drawing package have been
- bundled together under the name "interview". Unfortunately this is all
- X based, so not likely to run on a bog standard ST for some years.
- The output can be in latex form.
- Would anyone feel like converting this? It's only about 30 meg for the whole
- lot :-)
-
- |>
- |> Later,
- |>
-
- Richard
-