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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: SALE!!SALE!!!
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:33:54 GMT
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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.)

There is nothing inherently "better" about "Control-R c f b" over '\fB'.
(The former being FrameMaker's keyboard shortcut, and the latter being
troff's command to do the same thing.)  The feedback provided by a WYSIWYG
editor helps a lot, of course, but since you also claimed that WYSIWYG
wasn't necessary...