Lynn Bradshaw via plug on 25 Jan 2023 17:39:31 -0800


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


I saw a bunch of decent recommendations but one that seems to have been omitted was TeXmacs:

https://www.texmacs.org

Though I typically use LaTeX and occasionally LibreOffice Writer, the philosophy appears similar to that of LyX, albeit more so "WYSIWYG" than "WYSIWYM". I believe criteria #1, #3 and #5 are met but am not sure about the two others. #2 is at least sort of met by #3 already being satisfied but I know what a pain it can be to edit e.g. Blogspot-generated HTML manually so that math / logic puzzles and solutions can look nice.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 1:24 PM Casey Bralla (Mail List) via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

I don't know why this is so hard to find, but as they said in that old Tom Baker Doctor Who episode, "The Quest is The Quest".

I'm on a holy quest for a WYSIWYG HTML word processor.  It seems like lots of other people would want this also. 

On the hope that it does exist, and I've just not invested enough time in searching, does anybody know of a WYSIWYG HTML word processor?

My desires are:

  1. Basic word processing + the standard extras such as footnotes, spell check, table of contents, etc
  2. Reveal Codes capability ala the old WordPerfect so you can actually see what the underlying document structure is
  3. Uses HTML (or XML) as the markup language
  4. Real-time WYSIWYG, just like any modern word processor. (NOT export and view separately!)
  5. Formatting controls like a normal word processor (NOT manually adding HTML codes to get formatting)

I don't need all the super complex features of LibreOffice Writer of MS Word, but holy-moly, why is this program missing from the market?  As far as I can tell, EVERY word processor out there emulates the terrible, confusing, awful design concepts of MS Word.

Anybody got any suggestions?

TIA!

Casey

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