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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: About TeX as printing engine [Re: Fwd: Re: Application Ideas]
From:       Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-23 2:29:32
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On Wednesday 22 August 2001 08:59, David Faure wrote:

> Ok, TeX's printed output is indeed great, but how does that go with WYSIWYG
> ? I mean, either TeX is used only when printing (and the result will be
> different from the one on screen - as is the case with Lyx/KLyx, AFAIK),
> or TeX is used both when displaying and when printing, which means we have
> to display postscript (unless I'm wrong) which is very slow (no doubt
> there).

DVI. DeVice Independent. This means printed PS of the displayed DVI would 
overrule the WYSIWYG requirement, of course. Perfect printing comes to a 
cost. Only solution to be able to help excellent qualities of TeX would be  
to have an immensely performant PS display/canvas.

CT

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