Re: [PLUG] My Holy Quest for a WYSIWYG HTML Word Processor

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023, at 1:22 AM, Syeed Ali via plug wrote:

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:23:58 -0500

"Casey Bralla \(Mail List\) via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>

wrote:

> I'm on a holy quest for a WYSIWYG HTML word processor.  It seems like 

> lots of other people would want this also.

I've been interested in text editors ever since I learned that

control-s wouldn't save a file on the TTY, so I spent some time

just now on some research directly using the concept of "reveal codes".

TL;DR there's nothing I can see.

The solution appears to be to examine available markup languages to see

what supports your needs.

As others have said, TeX is likely the solution.

It really depends what the original poster wants to do. TeX is designed to produce physical documents. HTML is designed to produce web pages. There’s overlap, but there are also huge differences between them.

There are lots of TeX editors, and I have no particular recommendations

as I have not tried any.  Here's one:

https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html

(I don't know if it does footnotes)

I don’t know anything about this app, but since TeX can do footnotes, I’d be very surprised if this cannot.

FYI I've heard the developers of WordPerfect said that "reveal codes"

was inspired by TeX.  I think that knowledge comes from this book:

http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml

“Reveal codes” doesn’t really mean much in TeX, since it’s a markup language that’s rendered into a document by running a program against it.

Walt

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