Why use Wurd?

[Steve Furlong]

"Riad S. Wahby" wrote:

> Strange that you would go to all the trouble.  I'll take emacs and
> LaTeX2e any day of the week.  Who needs WYSIWYG when you can make
> nicer-looking documents in less time using a Turing-complete document
> formatting / programming language?

Compatability with Wurd users. A lot of customers, especially suit
types, give you Word and Excel files (or, worse, PowerPoint, gag), even
when the app is being implemented on *NIX. A fair number of commercial
publications want articles and stories to be submitted as Word docs. And
sometimes when you're putting in a bid to a corp, they require the
proposal both as hardcopy and as Word and Excel files.


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