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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Command languages versus GUIs.
Date: 23 Apr 1996 20:30:21 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <4liumn$iig@masala.cc.uh.edu>, Woody Jin <wjin@cs.uh.edu> wrote:
> The same thing can be said about LaTeX or troff -ms users.
> Most of them only know how to use \section{}, \figure{}, \cite{}, \itemize{},
> \verbatim{},...etc. which is nothing more than buttons on WYSIWYG
> word processors.
There are always users like that. The difference is that the apearance and
user interface for the more sophisticated techniques are the same in troff
or tex or other markup languages.
Personally, I'd rather use a purely structural markup language like strict
html, with separate style sheets. Speaking of which:
> Unfortunate thing is that most people don't care. They think, "I need
> some specific big fancy fonts because this is heading", rather than
> "this is (semantically) heading".
<blink>This is a big problem on the WEB</blink> despite a lot of early design
that encouraged <em>semantic</em> rather than <b>formatting</bold> markup.
<h2>There are even web pages that put whole paragraphs in headers because
the user was treating the headers as formatting information.</h2>
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