Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing
who else
tanner at ki4pv.UUCP
Fri Sep 12 12:36:59 AEST 1986
The reason that our customers have gone to "lyrix" instead of using
what we use for \fBall\fR of our document preparation is simple:
our customers need to print form letters &c. to their customers.
There appears to be no easy or clean way to merge data into nroff --
the data would have to be prepared with extra new-lines, and as for
iterating to print a hundred copies -- looks like it would be hairy.
If someone out there has prepared a package that merges nroff and
datafiles, I'd appreciate hearing of it. Otherwise, at some point
I'll invent this wheel. Looks like it'd be easy enough to write --
a day should have it and the document on it ready for distribution.
tanner andrews, systems
compudata south, deland
PS: I'm not sure if we could actually teach all of our customers'
secretaries to use nroff without fear, but I don't think it's any
more arcane than what they're using now. If I could just get someone
to call nroff \fIuser-friendly\fR I think we'd have it made.
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<std dsclm, copies upon request> Tanner Andrews
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