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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:18

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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 ...

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