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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.kolumbus.fi!news.csc.fi!ousrvr3.oulu.fi!not-for-mail From: tuoppi@stekt.oulu.fi (Tuomas Haarala) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Date: 10 Mar 1997 09:14:47 GMT Organization: University of Oulu, Department of Electrical Engineering, Finland Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5g0je7$fk3@ousrvr3.oulu.fi> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> <5fn3kr$s6k$1@jupiter.mcs.net> <5fsull$gqd@web.nmti.com> <5g02nk$q63$1@Venus.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: stekt38.oulu.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163637 comp.os.linux.networking:71426 comp.os.linux.setup:101808 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6270 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2766 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56446 Leslie Mikesell (les@MCS.COM) wrote: >>If I defer making it pretty until the last step why am I bothering with a >>WYSIWYG environment? > Because you can see what you're doing, Latex: I know what I'm doing and I can definately see it as long as my monitor is functional. > because you can let someone else do it for you, Check, I can. > because your file will be usable by 80% of the computers in the world, Somewhat 100% coverage, there is somekindof tex for m$ environment also - and it's damn easy to install some free *x into 'em. > because you can get print drivers for hundreds of printers, Yup. > because you can use thousands of cheap fonts? Free fonts, correction - Oh sorry, you was talking about some m$? Forget it. "Yea, but my fonts are better because I've paid for them!" Most of the trouble with these "wysiwyg"-programs is that that you can see what you've managed to do, but you don't have a slightest idea how to get what you want. (Of course, in time you will adapt and stop demanding so much..) -Tuoppi- -- The fact that windows is one of the most popular ways to operate a computer means that evolution has made a general fuckup and our race is doomed.