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Article #621285Re: Old word processors
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:12
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:12
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On 3/17/2018 11:19 AM, Huge wrote: > On 2018-03-17, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:07:52 -0500 >> Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >> >>> On 3/16/2018 4:30 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote: >> >>>> UW (University of Waterloo) script. >>>> Digital RUNOFF >>>> Burroughs ADS (Automatic Documentation System). >>>> troff >>>> >>>> all used markup sequences >>>> >>> >>> These things like RUNOFF are "text formaters", not word processors. And >>> IBM selectrics *are* typewriters. >> >> True enough, but the first word processors I used (Electric Pencil, >> WordStar) essentially integrated a text editor and a formatter to some >> extent. >> >> Personally I have always preferred using a separate text editor >> and formatter with some kind of markup over using a wsinqwyg word >> processor, they fight back far less painfully, scale way better and can >> easily be used with version control systems, database extracts ... > > *applause* > > Formatters are very useful and require the user to imagine what they want the final document to be. But like a compiled computer language, you have to execute the formatter software to see what the final document will look like. This may be a moot point today... since compilers and text formatters are blazingly fast on current computer hardware! -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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