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Now. Why am I wrong for Libre

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

WYSIWYG editors are often the worst thing to ever exist. (See: Dreamweaver) I don't know how Word has managed to stay alive for so long.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 weeks ago

I remember a blog post about about how WYSIWYG editors should be called "what you see doesn't prepare you for the eldritch horrors that lurk below the surface" editors.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

What exactly is the alternative?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

markdown

what lemmy uses

see the green little button under the comment? if you click it, it shows you the code that is used to generate the graphical appearance, including formatting and image embeddings.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Literally any typesetting software.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Go on?

There is absolutely no way that I am teaching Jan in accounting to use Latex.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does Jan in accounting make a lot of documents beyond a simple text block?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. She needs to add images, format text by highlighting and click an easy button, and insert an excel table.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That sounds like very much not her job. But hey, if this mythical Jan from accounting actually does need to do all that, the company should provide a template.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

For precise, intricate layouts I'll take InDesign or Quark XPress any day. That said, it's been a while since I last used those.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

WYSIWYM in some form should be promising.

I could see that concept plus some variant of LaTeX or typst or markdown, plus version control a la git being a serious killer app.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What exactly is the alternative?

I'd bet the rent that the Microsoft critics prefer a command-line text editor.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yep can see it already. > Just use Vim

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Was looking for this comment and was not disappointed:-)

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Defending Word and conflating programming and a command line in a single sentence.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

Guess I'm no longer an MS critic, but just a hater now.

I use GUI text editors.
Just not the MS stuff.