From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) Subject: Re: Let's write a wordprocessor. Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 02:25:09 GMT
A WYSIWYG word processor would be great! Even though many people express
their satisfaction with *roff or **TeX packages and emacs, there is
a big learning curve to using this stuff. For some reason I only got
around to learning emacs well, and that look a little while. Something
tells me that unless I used something like TeX all the time, when I did use
it I would be constantly referring to the manual.
I sat down and used Word for Windows 2.0 with no previous experience
and got all the special effects I wanted. I recently used Word5.1 on
the mac, and most everything is very intuitive. The only stuff I use
DOS for anymore is writing a paper.
Too bad that I don't have more free time right now or I would consider
joining the effort. I got enough programming projects to keep me busy
right now, and will continue to for another quarter.
There are some WYSIWYG word processors for unix available, but
I have not seen any that rival the user-friendliness of Word or
WordPerfect.
- Yonik Seeley
yseeley@cs.stanford.edu