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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) 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 Date: 9 Mar 1997 22:29:40 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5g02nk$q63$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> <5fn3kr$s6k$1@jupiter.mcs.net> <5fsull$gqd@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163711 comp.os.linux.networking:71463 comp.os.linux.setup:101863 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6275 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2771 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56497 In article <5fsull$gqd@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >In article <5fn3kr$s6k$1@jupiter.mcs.net>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote: >> If you defer making it pretty until the last step this isn't much of a >> problem. > >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, because you can let someone else do it for you, because your file will be usable by 80% of the computers in the world, because you can get print drivers for hundreds of printers, because you can use thousands of cheap fonts? How many reasons do you need? And you don't have to defer, it just means you don't have to undo things. But, as long as you do most of it with styles it is easy to change anyway. >I'll try what you suggested. It does get a bit painful, though, when you're >used to something like "g/something/i\^J.in +5\^j./" sort of thing. I prefer that myself, but only programmers think in terms where you can solve any problem by adding one more layer of indirection. If you have to teach other people very often you come to appreciate the style gallery where you pick a document type and then just select from a list of pre-built styles with obvious names, including bullet, numbered and plain lists at several levels. Besides, search/replace works with styles and other formatting codes. The hard part there is knowing what the search target is after you did something wrong. Les Mikesell les@mcs.com