Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > When I write a pamphlet using Libre Office, I need to see how it
  > > will appear on the page.  I need to see where line breaks and paragraph
  > > breaks appear.
  > >
  > > I want Emacs to be able to do tect processing that way.
  > When you say page, you mean a printed page on paper?

Of course.  A pamphlet is for handing out.

  > Can't that be helped with some of live preview options for a pdf or ps
  > or latex format? Auctex maybe? Or maybe some of org -> pdf/ps + DocView?

It would probably take half a minute each time.  I am sure you
understand the advantage of WYSIWYG.  Especially when the text needs
to fit in a limited space.

This is not an issue for longer documents, since it doesn't crucially matter
where the page breaks are in those.

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