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

We seem to have come full circle, or maybe some sort of spiral. On my first computer (an AT&T 3B1 that ran System V UNIX) I used nroff, which was a WYSIMWYG (What You See Is Mostly What You Get) text processor (although pre-processors like tbl and eqn were not). Today, we have Markdown (with preprocessors like Mermaid) and ReSTructured text, which are also WYSIMWYG. To the best of my knowledge, Lyx and Quanta Plus may be tools that meet your needs, although NetBeans may as well.

Regards

– Bhaskar

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 2:43 PM Casey Bralla (Mail List) via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

I'm not really concerned about making HTML. I really just want some
type of "tagged" language so I can see the tags and understand how they
effect the text. HTML or XML seems like the way to do this, but it can
be 100% proprietary tags, as long as I can easily read them.

My basic complaint with Libreoffice or Word is that it does stuff and I
haven't got a clue why it's doing it. (Word is really bad at this when
you are modifying someone else's template. Ugh!!)

On 1/25/23 13:52, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 01:45:45PM -0500, Ronaldo Nascimento via plug wrote:
>> On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 1:23:58 PM EST Casey Bralla (Mail List) via
>> plug wrote:
>>> I'm on a holy quest for a WYSIWYG HTML word processor. It seems like
>>> lots of other people would want this also.
>> Why not TeX?
>>
>> https://www.lyx.org/
>>
>> LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on
>> the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance
>> (WYSIWYG).
> I've written my fair share of TeX documents, including my PhD
> thesis. (Really LaTeX, but for the point of this discussion it's the
> same thing.) TeX is great for generating PDFs, but it's not really
> designed for creating HTML.
>
> Walt
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