Re: Layout program or markup language

Subject: Re: Layout program or markup language
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: techwr-l digest recipients <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:45:24 -0700

"Michele Marques" <mmarques -at- cms400 -dot- com> wrote:

>Unless there have been good WYSIWIG tools developped for TeX,
>the problem for many people is that it is annoying to type and
maintain mark-up codes.

There are a couple of WYSIWYG tools for TeX, all in more or less
constant development.

>Many people find WYSIWIG programs (e.g, Word, WordPerfect,
>PageMaker, FrameMaker, Ventura) easier to work with because
>they see more immediately the effects of their mark-up

Another important reason are tools for revision and document
maintenance. TeX lacks many of these tools,. Those it does have
tend to be less developed than in WYSIWYG

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