DA>> Do people really need WYSIWYG? I think the majority does not. At

Well, yes they do. At least if you don't take paternalist approach of "I
know better than people themselves what the people need". The reality
check shows that users an masse prefer WYSIWYG tools for casual
word-processing (as opposed to book-making) to non-WYSIWYG ones.

DA>> So we do have an alternative - convert people to the far better
DA>> WYSIWYM mindset, and let them use lyx (which exists on windows
DA>> as well, after all, although there a latex installation can't be
DA>> taken for granted as it can be on a unix).

Well, good luck in explaining a secretary the output that she got is
entirely different from what she saw on the screen because it did what she
_meant_ or because Joint Association of Typographers set in 1835 that it
should look that way.
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