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Re: Emacs as word processor
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs as word processor |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:58:20 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:39:55 +0700
> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> Drew Adams <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I guess you've never used any of the *Office word processors, because
> > they allow this quite easily: there's a font selection combo on the
> > tool bar, and a size selection combo right next to it.
>
> Yes, and those, along with the <bold> <italic> <underline> buttons,
> are a sure way to create an unmaintainable document. It is easy and
> predictable at first and is fine if you only need to hack up a quick
> page, print it out and not even bother to save it. But when writing
> any kind of a long-lived document, direct formatting is a curse.
We are not here to force any particular workflows on users. If they
find such document unmaintainable, they will refrain from doing that.
(FWIW, I have yet to see why applying these attributes makes documents
"unmaintainable", and I write large documents for a living.)
- Re: Emacs as word processor, (continued)
- RE: Emacs as word processor, Drew Adams, 2013/11/26
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/26
- RE: Emacs as word processor, Drew Adams, 2013/11/26
- Re: Emacs as word processor / Text Properties, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/26
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Yuri Khan, 2013/11/24
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Stefan Monnier, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Davis Herring, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Lennart Borgman, 2013/11/22