No text editing???

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Mon Aug 20 10:25:00 EDT 2001


Yes, precisely. But, to answer the rest of it, there are other
applications, such as latexfor printing, that take care of the layout to
make it look pretty. On the web, it's css to make it "look" right.
 On Mon,
20 Aug 2001, Lawrence Baggett wrote:

> It seems to me that with speakup I can use any
> of the normal editors in linux.
> I happen to prefer ex, but lots of folks use
> vi, and I occasionally use emacs.
> You certainly don't have formatting capabilities in editors like ex,
> but global replacement and searaching, reading in other files,
> and marking moving blocks around are all available.
> I for one do not like all the Big Brother heop that programs like
> WP and WORD give.
>
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