Stanislav Malyshev wrote on 2003-05-29: > 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. > It should be noted at this point that "WYSIWYM" and WYSIWYG are not exclusive. Unfortunately it doesn't support Hebrew in any way but TeXmacs is still a great proof of existance. The trick is that what you *type* is what you mean while what you *see* is precisely what you get. I believe TeXmacs would pose very few problems to Joe the average Word user. It feels almost like word, except that the fonts and equations are beautiful, objects don't anchor to random places outside the visible page and Assistant doesn't interfere ;-).
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