Re: Emacs as word processor

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: "Allen S. Rout" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:42:52 -0500
>> 
>> On 11/23/2013 03:22 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > The layout depends on the medium in very minor ways, as long as we are
>> > talking about the "usual" page sizes.  If what you have in mind is A3
>> > paper or greeting cards, then the layout is indeed greatly affected,
>> > but that's taking the issue to its extreme.
>> > 
>> > IOW, WYSIWYG is much more than just layout.
>> > 
>> 
>> I think this is a critical point, and I think that Eli is deeply
>> incorrect here.  WYSIWYG is -only- about layout, for the overwhelming
>> majority of its users.  I think that's why many of us aren't so fond of it.
>
> Then I guess there are several conflicting ways of interpreting
> WYSIWYG.  It's not that I just landed from Mars, or never saw a
> WYSIWYG word processor before.
>
> We will just have to agree to disagree.
>
> Of course, the real question is what did Richard have in mind.
>
>> There is no distinction between letter and greeting cards which is not
>> present in the comparison between letter and
>> letter-with-really-small-margins. Line breaks, kerning, justification
>> details... all of this is relevant if we actually want WYSIWYG.
>
> I won't object if Emacs supported writing papers in a WYSIWYGy
> fashion, but didn't support greeting cards.

Why not?  Don't tell us you never receive those irritating greeting
cards from non-programmers.  Why shouldn't we be able to retaliate in
kind? 
-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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