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Re: Emacs as word processor
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs as word processor |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:56:45 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
John Yates <address@hidden> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> I see no reason for these features to be connected to a style.
> They
> can easily be separate; keeping them separate will make it easier
> for
> users to specify arbitrary combinations of them.
>
>
> Is that really the goal?
>
> When I started programming 45 years ago I wrote in the only language
> available for system programming: assembler. I hand laid out every
> looping construct. I hand allocated every register. I was entirely
> on my own to identify and enforce all necessary conventions. Using a
> high level language deprives me of some of the fine control I once
> had. In exchange though I can contemplate and even complete
> radically larger designs. I am extremely grateful for a limited
> vocabulary of loops, for entirely automatic register allocation and
> for languages that enforce strong typing.
>
> I am unmoved by the prospect of being able to specify entirely
> arbitrary combinations of all formatting elements at any and every
> point in my documents.
Well, of course, a well structured document can be laid out
automatically and produce quite readable a document.
However, it seems to me that we encounter frequently enough local
layout or typographical problems that require manual intervention. So I
wouldn't discard the possibility of editing locally the style, only
applicable on a single character, word, paragraph, whatever the
structural elements that need to be tuned.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
- Re: Emacs as word processor, (continued)
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Lennart Borgman, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, John Yates, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Lennart Borgman, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Lennart Borgman, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Jambunathan K, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Jambunathan K, 2013/11/26
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, John Yates, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor,
Pascal J. Bourguignon <=
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, PJ Weisberg, 2013/11/24
- RE: Emacs as word processor, Drew Adams, 2013/11/24
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/25