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

[Ron Guilmet via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

One of the problems today, is that HTML is just a structure. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, HTML was all formatting. Today, HTML is just a template, for a lack of better of terms, and CSS is carrying the heavy weight of all of the formatting. Today, you don’t even use <center> tags. If you save a Libre doc as a webpage, and then view the source it is a nightmare to look at, let alone to edit. Markdown, LaTex, etc will work, but they all have their quirks, so-to-speak. WordPress has a live preview, but that is a bit much, if you are just uploading docs. I assume, you just want to upload a static page to the web? You said, you are having formatting issues with Libre as well in the editing process before it goes to save as web?

Ron G

On Jan 30, 2023, at 1:29 PM, Casey Bralla (Mail List) via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

"I had thought a simple HTML authoring program that allowed me to see in real time what the output looked like would give me this same result, provided it also included features such as chapters, footnotes, indents, lists, etc.  HTML seemed like a natural coding system, but is only one potential technical path to being able to create well-formatted documents.

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