Re: Emacs as word processor

[Richard Stallman]

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    Have you seen the preview option of AucTeX?  It renders the equations
    and images referenced in the .tex file inline as you type it in.
    Would that be a direction in which you'd want the WYSIWYG feature to
    go.  Write in some markup and have a real time buffer render it
    immediately as you type?

It would be a step forward, but if the user needs to know the markup
language, it will require a lot more learning a than ordinry WYSIWYG
word processors do.  Also, format compatibility is very important.
Could it be provided in this mode?

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