Essay: "Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient"

[jiva@devware.com]

An interesting article, unfortunately, he'll never win his argument
trying to convince WP users to use emacs and TeX.  That having been
said, I have been having a WONDERFUL time using KLYX and LYX to
compose technical documents of late.  These are WYSIWYM (What you see
is what you mean) word processors, and they are nice a gui clicky
clicky resulting in the ability to output TeX and SGML etc.  In fact,
I introduced one of my coworkers to it, and he *sang it's praise*
today at a meeting where we talked about documentation tools.  So now,
I am contemplating integrating it into a web interface where people
can browse lyx generated docs through the web (similar to this guy's
text) and then click a link to edit the doc.  Then that'll launch klyx
on the remote Linux machine running the web pages, and display klyx
locally on the local X Server running in Windows (this is for all the
telnet-phobes around the office)  I am hoping this will supplant Word
as our technical document preparation engine.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:45:32PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
> 
> http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html
> 
> this came across another list. It could be rewritten to use XML/SGML
> instead of TeX.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans

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