X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1138" "Fri" "4" "July" "1997" "22:51:03" "+0200" "Joachim Schrod" "schrod@ITI.INFORMATIK.TH-DARMSTADT.DE" nil "31" "Re: ideal future document processing environment" "^Date:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA19996; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 23:21:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.6C76A7BB@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 23:21:11 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 163827 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 23:21:08 +0200 Received: from beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (root@beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de [194.64.181.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id XAA18243 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 23:21:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from puma.npc.de (deck-61.frankfurt.netsurf.de [194.64.181.93]) by beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA00249 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 23:21:03 +0200 Received: (from schrod@localhost) by puma.npc.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA02649 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 22:51:04 +0200 Received: (from schrod@localhost) by puma.npc.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA02647; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 22:51:03 +0200 References: <970616122025.3714@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> <199706161450.OAA16450@ew160061.nets.de.eds.com> <199706161526.QAA16549@knott.elsevier.co.uk> <199706171528.QAA24443@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.95) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <199707042051.WAA02647@puma.npc.de> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706171528.QAA24443@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 22:51:03 +0200 From: Joachim Schrod Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: ideal future document processing environment Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2268 >>>>> "SR" == Sebastian Rahtz writes: SR> Michael John Downes writes: >> >> And with what editing interface for authors? >> SR> Well, zillions of people/authors do very nicely thanks with tools like SR> HotMetal, Author/Editor, Framemaker, Word They do it, but not nicely. I have to work with these programs, they're real crap. A good editor allows actions on the structure of the edited document (e.g., deleting/moving/transposing words, word-parts, sentences, parenthised remarks, paragraphs, SGML elements, etc.) The document manipulation capabilities of these so-called tools are primitive by all means. Cheers, Joachim [Favorite quote concerning this subject:] software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Net & Publication Consultance GmbH Tel.: +49-6074-861530 Roedermark, Germany Fax: +49-6074-861531