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- From: hofstoet@vanessa.fmi.uni-passau.de (Hans Ulrich Hofstoetter)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for a WYSIWYG TeX/LaTeX
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:52:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Passau, Germany
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- Sender: hofstoet@vanessa (Hans Ulrich Hofstoetter)
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- In article <PLANIUS.93Jan15143550@hpmpi1.desy.de>, planius@hpmpi1.desy.de (P. Lanius) writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > I'm not sure what the TeX experts in comp.text.tex will tell you, but IMHO
- > WYSIWYG and LaTeX is a contradiction since the basic idea of TeX is not to
- > be a WYSIWYG word processor. So all you can aim for is a more user friendly
- > interface to typesetting formulas/tables in LaTeX. The only program I know
- > about is Scientific Word (for Windows) which allows formula generation with
- > prdefined buttons to click on. But still everything is translated to LaTeX
- > commands. As usual a previewer is used to see the result. Although the
- > current version is not capable of handling tables/footnotes in a special
- > manner (could of course be done using LaTeX commands) this program seems to
- > be quite useful. Due to the splitting of the source in plain text and ma-
- > thematics also spell checking is possible.
- > All in all it's gives you as much WYSIWYG feeling as LaTeX allows.
- >
- > Peter
- > --
-
- I agree. LaTeX won't be WYSIWYG (but tell me if you make it).
- But how about Scientific Word. Do you have some more information on it
- (sharewar, ftp, etc ...). Please let me know.
- Another thing i'm looking for is a TeX previewer for windows, supporting the
- font libraries. Does it exist? Where?
-
- Thanks in advance
-
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