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

[Syeed Ali via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

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.

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)



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




Some random dead-end research:


LibreOffice reveal codes
2011-02-07 - NEW
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002


Apache OpenOffice reveal codes
WONTFIX
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3395


Word Perfect ported to UNIX:
https://github.com/taviso/wpunix



As an aside:

There used to be "CrossEyes" which created reveal codes in MS Word 2010:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200810160312/https://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/crosseyes.html
But it seems to be native:
https://dfarq.homeip.net/reveal-codes-word/
https://www.howtogeek.com/104940/reveal-formatting-in-word-2010/
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