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Re: Emacs as word processor
From: |
Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs as word processor |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:54:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
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__
http://www.informatimago.com/
- Re: Emacs as word processor, (continued)
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, PJ Weisberg, 2013/11/24
- RE: Emacs as word processor, Drew Adams, 2013/11/24
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor,
Pascal J. Bourguignon <=
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Tom, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Ivan Andrus, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, RĂ¼diger Sonderfeld, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/20