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kovidgoyal · 06-10-2007, 10:50 AM

Sigh you aren't getting the point a graphical application that lets you do scripting is using a command interface. The very fact that successful GUI apps need to include scripting is an indication of the limitations of the GUI as an interface to a computer.
And alex what's Word good for if it doesn't do typesetting? Also this forum is generated by a PHP script which (probably) uses an HTML template which I seriously doubt was built in a WYSWIG editor.

EDIT: alex, I'm curious, if Word is not good for typesetting, what is it good for? Creating reflowable documents? Essentially a WYSWIG HTML editor? At least in my experience people do use Word for typesetting and the results are pretty awful. I've never used/seen Quark express so I can't comment on it.

06-10-2007, 10:50 AM	#68
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,492 Karma: 28005164 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Sigh you aren't getting the point a graphical application that lets you do scripting is using a command interface. The very fact that successful GUI apps need to include scripting is an indication of the limitations of the GUI as an interface to a computer. And alex what's Word good for if it doesn't do typesetting? Also this forum is generated by a PHP script which (probably) uses an HTML template which I seriously doubt was built in a WYSWIG editor. EDIT: alex, I'm curious, if Word is not good for typesetting, what is it good for? Creating reflowable documents? Essentially a WYSWIG HTML editor? At least in my experience people do use Word for typesetting and the results are pretty awful. I've never used/seen Quark express so I can't comment on it. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 06-10-2007 at 12:23 PM.