[SunRescue] Should an editor require you to think?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Do you have a source for where it was that Knuth laid out that definition?

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Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Christopher Byrne wrote:

> No, document processing involves layout, word processing doesnt. BTW, I'm
> using Donald Knuth's definitions here. According to him (he wrote TeX, he
> should know ;-) there are three primary functions here
> 
> 1. Word processing covers the basic entry of text, and the saving of files
> etc... basic editor functions
> 2. text processing is the handling and manipulation of text (fonts and
> faces, pagination, paragraph properties)
> 3. document processing is the layout of pages for printing or viewing
> (typesetting or DTP)
> 
> In that sense, any text editor can be used for word processing. Packges like
> TeX, LaTeX, troff, groff, nroff, are used to do the other two. IN the
> windows sense word processing actually combines some of all three
> 
> 
> Chris Byrne