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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SALE!!SALE!!! Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 17:51:37 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32F51A79.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32ED8F7B.4F16@pacific.net.sg> <32f2eb42.2542545@news.earthlink.net> <hckohe4zeus.fsf@eto.ericsson.se> <5d0h2f$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E4zvwJ.72@kithrup.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34650 Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > In article <5d0h2f$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de>, > J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >For a secretary, you can't get away with vi > >or emacs or TeX or troff. > > What's interesting is that secretaries at Bell Labs *did* use troff. (I > don't know what editor they used.) > I worked there when they did. Not only that, in one of my jobs back in 1977 (in another company), our secretary used runoff. I think that we underestimate the learning ability of people sometimes. However, we are all a bit lazy, and for small docs, WYSIWYG is more convienient. Things over 10-20 pages, typesetting-type tools seem to be advantageous to me. John