Re:Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient
by yafujifide on Monday November 30, 2009 @07:45PM
(#969023)
In principle, there could be a visual text editor that applied default styles to the structure of your text. You wouldn't see \jibber{jabber}, but text that was styled in a default way. Separately, custom styles could be applied to the output, say in a second window. This would allow you to separate the structure from the style without having to see the markup language, and it would be as easy to use as a WYSIWYG editor.
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Re:Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient
by JulianMorrison on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @01:23AM
(#969341)
LaTeX has LyX, but of course it suffers from the "few templates" problem (made worse by the need for two templates - the original and the GUI rendering), and it isn't a wonderful text editor anyhow. But if you want to compose laTeX quickly, that's the tool.