At 03:32 PM 98/08/12 -0700, Marcel Oliver wrote: >I disagree. I believe somewhere in the long-term development of TeX >and/or LaTeX one has to come to a point were visual markup decisions >(page breaks, float placement, maybe even parshapes) can be done >within some GUI and are clearly separated from the logical markup >which is best done in a traditional text editor (thus, getting rid of >ugly things like float placement parameters, \addtopage, \clearpage >etc.) in the .tex file. >This requires a sufficiently fast TeX engine to be useful---the >avarage PC is now coming into this range. So I don't think it would >be a good idea to throw away performance unless it is compensated by a >clear and major gain in non-performance issues. This performance may >be desperately needed in future development of LaTeX which is not yet >forseen. I agree. Working on the new Technical Addendum (about 100 pages, 300kb TeX source file) for our TeX System, I can reTeX and redisplay in 2-3 seconds whenever I want to check on how changes affected the layout. Great when fine-tuning bad line- and bad page-breaks. I'd hate to give this up...