On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:28:27PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:18:05PM +0200, Pierre Riteau wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:10:37PM +0200, Samo Jelovsek wrote: > > > On 24. 06. 2008 16:41, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > >>> Understood, but I wrote about functionality conciously: I would mean > > >>> "ability to write a letter" rather than OO.org. > > >> > > >> mg and vi come to mind... > > >> > > >> > > > > > > Hm, I'm just curious how do you imagine writing a letter with vi or mg > > > (ok, i really don't know mg so well..). Don't understand this the wrong > > > way I really want to know, because you maybe know something I don't. > > > I would consider using latex for writing a letter.. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Samo > > > > > > > As someone already said earlier, you can write your letter in troff > > with mg or vi and create a postscript file from that. > > One of the more important features of unix always has been document > processing and typesetting. > > -Otto
Exactly. The first user of Unix besides the developers of the system was the Patent departement at Bell Labs, as early as 1971, to prepare patent applications (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html).
