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Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be t
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) |
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Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:05:43 +0200 |
> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 21:35:49 +0700
> Cc: John Yates <address@hidden>, John Wiegley <address@hidden>,
> Daniele Nicolodi <address@hidden>, address@hidden, Emacs developers
> <address@hidden>
>
> * Office-like applications do not make you very aware of styles.
Trust me, I'm aware of my styles.
> * Your lexicon of styles is poorly designed, that you use one style
> where you need two or more.
That could be, because Someone Else (TM) designed them. But I don't
think the number of styles is the problem, more likely their
relations.
> > So I prefer applying styles by hand, locally wherever I need that. It
> > works wonders on my productivity.
>
> How big are your documents, how long-lived are they, and are they part
> of a bigger collection that needs to be consistently formatted?
Quite large (up to hundreds of pages), quite long-lived (years), and
usually maintained all the time.
> Otherwise I’d have the opposite problem of having to do the same
> change in too many places and never being sure I got them all.
I never need to change the style, because I consistently use the same
styles in all the documents.
- Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), John Yates, 2018/03/06
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/07
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), John Yates, 2018/03/07
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), John Yates, 2018/03/08
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/08
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), John Yates, 2018/03/08
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/08
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Richard Stallman, 2018/03/08
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Richard Stallman, 2018/03/08
- Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?), Richard Stallman, 2018/03/09