J. C. Woods wrote:

>Michael Holt wrote:
>
>http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm
>
>>I'm not able to pull the page up at this point - try later? I do have
>>another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
>>and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size
>>of fonts as well as italics, bold, etc.  Is that possible?  Does vi have
>>something built in that will allow you to format a document?
>>
>>tia, Mike
>>
>
>Its back up, Mike. Had some strong thunder storms here in the southern
>US so I took my network down to avoid problems.
>
>vi is straight ascii, and you would want to keep things simple with it.
>If you need some fancy fonts or special formating, you would be better
>off with some kind of word processing app.
>
But you can write TeX source with vi which can be converted into a dvi 
or ps file and printed in the form of a nice book (if you got it right ;-).
Of course, if you are a PostScript mage you can write a ps file directly :-D




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