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Originally Posted by BrowncoatCat
People in the real world who want to visually lay out a visual product like a book do not want to learn reams of complex coding. They just want to get the job done.
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Describing an ebook as a visual product is kind of a perfect crystallization of what's wrong with WYSIWYG. With WYSIWYG, you get folks doing all sorts of arbitrary things that are semantically meaningless but "look right." You have to properly describe the structure of your document, something that is nearly never done by folks using WYSIWYG.
That's why most of the most lauded WYSIWYG apps find success mainly by kneecapping customization options, something that ironically usually causes their users to cry about their exclusion. Can't have it both ways.