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To: Swordmaker

Gee, did I specify just type-editing? No, I did not. Anything where “it just works” but “I’ll be d**ned if I know how it did that” fits under the general rubric of WYSIWYG. Second, you’re right, I over-specified OS types - my bad - Apple’s OS no longer qualifies as a transparent, or even translucent, OS. So, let’s try a narrower class: *nix - (Apple OSes).


182 posted on 04/12/2010 4:09:17 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Oceander
Gee, did I specify just type-editing? No, I did not. Anything where “it just works” but “I’ll be d**ned if I know how it did that” fits under the general rubric of WYSIWYG. Second, you’re right, I over-specified OS types - my bad - Apple’s OS no longer qualifies as a transparent, or even translucent, OS. So, let’s try a narrower class: *nix - (Apple OSes).

Excuse me... but that is WYSIWYG is all about... that what you see on the screen is what you will get on the printed page. And I disagree about Apple no longer qualifies as transparent. If you know what you are doing, you can still control everything about it. It IS UNIX.

187 posted on 04/12/2010 9:39:36 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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