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Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview)
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview) |
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Fri, 23 May 2003 11:39:16 -0400 |
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Hi, all.
On Fri, May 23, 2003, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> Nevertheless it would be great to have a pseudo dreamweaver front end
> (lyx) for producing groff allowing new users to edit the troff or edit
> the wysiwyg. I wonder whether this could be done in Python?
This has always been my dream. Out of the
wordprocessing-wysiwyg/textprocessing-formatting debate, one thing
has always been clear: wysiwyg is the right tool for some things
(like complex page layout), "coding" is the right tool for others.
In the early nineties, some software out of Britain called Quoin,
which ran on Macs, did the dreamweaver thing: a split screen with
editable wysiwyg at the top and "coded" text at the bottom. Any
edits to one screen were immediately reflected in the other.
Brilliant, perfect solution. Problem was, it was buggy. The shop
I worked in then used it to typeset a couple of contracts worth
over a million dollars. Problem was, it was buggy and closed
source, so Quoin died.
Still, I've always wondered if open-source couldn't take the
concept and do it right? Frankly, I wouldn't care whether the
underlying engine was groff or TeX. (Not quite true -- I don't
like TeX that much. :) )
--
Peter Schaffter
Author of _The Schumann Proof_, appearing fall, 2004
(pub. RendezVous Press, Canada)
- Re: [Groff] Bug in gxditview, (continued)
- Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Giorgos Magos, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Patrik Schindler, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Giorgos Magos, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Gaius Mulley, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Gaius Mulley, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Giorgos Magos, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview),
Peter Schaffter <=
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Larry Kollar, 2003/05/23
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Ralph Corderoy, 2003/05/24
- Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview), Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2003/05/24
[Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents, Werner LEMBERG, 2003/05/23
- Re: [Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents, Andreas Kähäri, 2003/05/23
- RE: [Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents, Ted Harding, 2003/05/23
- Re: [Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents, Giorgos Magos, 2003/05/23
- Re: [Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents, Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2003/05/24
- Re: [Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents, Werner LEMBERG, 2003/05/25
- Re: [Groff] Re: Readability of troff documents, Ted Harding, 2003/05/25