On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Timothy Bolz wrote:
> My last post got me thinking why do you need a word processor program. It
> could be a web based program. Normally letters are one text. So why not
> type it in the text. Then let it know what format you would like it in and
> it could send it to whomever you like as an attachment. It would have to
> have a conversion program to do this. XML,doc,rtf,Latex or whatever. Is it
> to far fetched to do this?
Provided one can cope with not seeing the document before it's finally
formatted, this can easily be done with the old Unix text processing
tools--*roff or LaTex or what have you--I suppose Scribe is still
available somewhere.
Thing is, the majority of users really need to be able to see the
document while they're working on it.
Randolph
