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Re:Ask HN: MS Word alternatives for writing academic reports by Paul_S on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:18AM (#6970872)
Have you considered LyX? Designed for people with a problem like yours - wanting the benefit of TeX output without the effort needed to learn something new. It's also a pretty good structure oriented (rather than WYSIWYG) editor.
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Re:Ask HN: MS Word alternatives for writing academic reports by partoutok on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:29AM (#6970937)
Isn't LyX WYSIWYG ? Personally I would say it is. (and also @vancomycin below). Sure there is also the "WYSIWYM" category, but it's more of a pun and not broadly known.
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Re:Ask HN: MS Word alternatives for writing academic reports by Paul_S on Friday December 27, 2013 @12:00PM (#6971410)
LyX is not WYSIWYG and I'm not sure how to argue this point. What you see in the editor window doesn't look like the paginated output - it's not really up to someone's opinion to decide.
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Re:Ask HN: MS Word alternatives for writing academic reports by partoutok on Friday December 27, 2013 @01:43PM (#6971959)
It's not the paginated output but it's close, especially compared to LaTeX code. And I believe many people understand WYSIWYG broadly as a point and click interface with visual feedback, in contrast to writing some code.
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