Now. Why am I wrong for Libre
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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.
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.
What exactly is the alternative?
markdownwhat 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.
Literally any typesetting software.
Go on?
There is absolutely no way that I am teaching Jan in accounting to use Latex.
Does Jan in accounting make a lot of documents beyond a simple text block?
Yes. She needs to add images, format text by highlighting and click an easy button, and insert an excel table.
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.
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.
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.
I'd bet the rent that the Microsoft critics prefer a command-line text editor.
Yep can see it already. > Just use Vim
Was looking for this comment and was not disappointed:-)
Defending Word and conflating programming and a command line in a single sentence.
Guess I'm no longer an MS critic, but just a hater now.
I use GUI text editors.
Just not the MS stuff.