| Casey Bralla (Mail List) via plug on 26 Jan 2023 06:41:59 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] My Holy Quest for a WYSIWYG HTML Word Processor |
I think my __REAL__ desire is to see "Reveal Codes", and to relive my glory in WordPerfect. I see it's available for Linux in text mode, but that's too old fashion for me.
I plan to try to get it running in WINE.
BTW, not sure who pointed it to me, but this is a fascinating account from one of the founders of WordPerfect. http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml
Casey
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:
(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:
“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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