Essay: "Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient"

[Kevin O'Connor]

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jiva@devware.com wrote:

> 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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> for they shall be know as Dentists.
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