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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 10 Mar 1997 17:36:54 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <5g02nk$q63$1@venus.mcs.net>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote:
> In article <5fsull$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,
More or less, except it's not what it's really going to look like, and you
don't get to really see what the functional markup is.
<P>
New paragraph goes here. <tt/This/ is in typewriter text. This
here is a <url url="blah blah">hypertext reference</url>.
<sect1>
<heading>New section goes here.</heading>
I have found Word Perfect "show codes" to be pretty good, if only WP wasn't
so broken in other ways...
> because you can let someone else do it for you,
No I can't, not if I want the functional markup.
> because your file will be usable by 80% of the computers
> in the world,
If I write in SGML it'll be usable by 100%, since I can convert the SGML
into HTML, which everyone can read. Word will even import it and let me
do WYSIWYG... I wonder how hard it'd be to wrap the Postscript output
into PDF?
And of course I won't be forcing people to buy Microsoft Orifice just to
mark up my document, since Microsoft REFUSES to publish their formats.
> because you can get print drivers for hundreds of printers,
The only printer I've ever had that didn't have a Ghostscript driver for
out of the box is the HP Quietjet. And I bet I can find one if I actually
wanted it. But since my native output is Postscript, who cares?
> because you can use thousands of cheap fonts?
I've got thousands of cheap fonts already. There are so many Postscript
fonts floating around it's ridiculous... the number of fonts I can get in
TTF and not Postscript are negligable.
> I prefer that myself, but only programmers think in terms where
> you can solve any problem by adding one more layer of indirection.
But that's what Word forces you to do, for any significant sized document.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'