At 21:13 1/25/95, Timothy C. May wrote:

...but to say that popular applications can be--and have been--ported to Unix. Many of you presumably have first-hand knowledge of this, with apps like Mathematica, FrameMaker, WordPerfect, etc. on Unix boxes as well as PCs and Macs.

I say this only to defend by Pedantics degree, but I believe that FrameMaker was originally a UNIX product that was horribly ported to the Macintosh. (I had the unfortunate experience of using the first Mac incarnotion; I racked up some pretty good karma... :-)

This is separate, I think, from the issue of teaching secretaries LaTex...that sounds truly evil. (8-))

Did that ;-) It's amazing how much of office routine can be done with the simple application of cut-and-paste boilerplate. -----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Sattler <msattler@jungle.com> San Francisco, California | Digital Jungle Consulting Services http://www.jungle.com/msattler/ | | And so these men of Indostan/ disputed long and loud/ each in his own | opinion/ exceeding stiff and strong/ though each was partly right/ and | all were in the wrong! - John Godfrey Saxe |