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Originally Posted by frabjous
WYSIWYM is not made for specialized disciplines! What gave you that idea? You are using one right now to post this message on MobileRead.
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Yes, and that's why a massive amount of people DON'T use "advanced", and just ignore the "advanced" formatting options. WYSIWYG hacks for bulletin boards are among the most commonly used - many are TinyMCE-based, for example.
Indeed, this forum is unusual these days in that it
shows the tags. Most of the forums I use simply display the formatting in the edit box. Heck, 99% of my Foswiki editing these days doesn't involve dropping into tag-editing mode.
(And the other 1% is when I'm effectively writing applications in Foswiki, which is precisely the sort of thing I'd expect to be scripting!*)
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You are fully of incorrect assumptions about what I'm advocating.
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You're advocating non-WYSIWYG interfaces and CSS-as-a-good-soloution. No?
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Download and try LyX. You'll see that's precisely what it's like. It's got less visible code than Mobileread's "Go Advanced" does.
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I'm not interested in
yet another app which doesn't do WYSIWYG editing, designed for a specialist market. Especially one which uses TeX, not a XML-based markup language.
Still waiting on the
CSS editor which has an intuitive interface...
*Even then: I've worked at a games company where their editor used a visual scripting system. There was NO textual scripting interface (which has a few drawbacks, but they're not really relevant to this discussion, or for 99% of what you do with it) and it allowed VERY rapid prototyping and development! The best designer couldn't code one line, but did some
amazing things with that engine!