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Now. Why am I wrong for Libre

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

WYSIWYG editors are often the worst thing to ever exist. (See: Dreamweaver) I don't know how Word has managed to stay alive for so long.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 10 months ago

I remember a blog post about about how WYSIWYG editors should be called "what you see doesn't prepare you for the eldritch horrors that lurk below the surface" editors.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What exactly is the alternative?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

markdown

what lemmy uses

see the green little button under the comment? if you click it, it shows you the code that is used to generate the graphical appearance, including formatting and image embeddings.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Literally any typesetting software.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Go on?

There is absolutely no way that I am teaching Jan in accounting to use Latex.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does Jan in accounting make a lot of documents beyond a simple text block?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. She needs to add images, format text by highlighting and click an easy button, and insert an excel table.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That sounds like very much not her job. But hey, if this mythical Jan from accounting actually does need to do all that, the company should provide a template.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

For precise, intricate layouts I'll take InDesign or Quark XPress any day. That said, it's been a while since I last used those.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

WYSIWYM in some form should be promising.

I could see that concept plus some variant of LaTeX or typst or markdown, plus version control a la git being a serious killer app.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What exactly is the alternative?

I'd bet the rent that the Microsoft critics prefer a command-line text editor.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yep can see it already. > Just use Vim

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago

Was looking for this comment and was not disappointed:-)

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Defending Word and conflating programming and a command line in a single sentence.

16974

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

Guess I'm no longer an MS critic, but just a hater now.

I use GUI text editors.
Just not the MS stuff.