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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by madhadron on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:15PM (#24422537)
> That’s a problem that no WYSIWYG has been able to solve yet. It’s probably an unavoidable abstraction leakage.

I think it comes from conflating layout with writing. In QuarkXPress or InDesign it really isn't an issue. Those tools are quite uncomfortable for sitting to write in, though.

LyX does a decent job of this, I think, though it's not exactly WYSIWYG.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by tambourine_man on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:47PM (#24427320)
You’re probably onto something.

There’s also an issue with black box language vs something like HTML, which has semantic value besides pure presentational function.

I don’t care if the auto generated PostScript is ugly as long as the printed work is perfect.

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