Re: .emacs poser

[Emanuel Berg]

Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:

>> I never heard "text processor". But, "text processor"
>> = editor, then?
>
> Nope.  A text processor is a stand-alone program ...
> you might call it a "text assembler".  You write up a
> source file full of formatting commands embedded the
> running text.  You can use any editor for this, from
> ed to emacs.  Then you feed that file to the
> formatter, and it outputs nicely formatted text, with
> equations, figures, and so on, in PS, PDF, HTML, or
> even straight text.

As in *markup*? Don't you use Emacs (or another editor)
for this? An editor is a stand-alone program.

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Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
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