On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:08:24 -0300 John Coppens <j...@jcoppens.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:22:41 +0100 > Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Looks like someone wanted to be extra-smart, but this only prevents > > people from being able to do what they need to do. Which, to me, is > > compulsive, imperious and totally braindead, if you prefer these > > adjectives to "bullshittish". > > Wow... Almost looks as if you paid for LyX. Didn't it? Sounds like he considers LyX a "product". Perhaps he should make a competing "product". All he'd have to do is: * Make a good HTML5/xhtml editor with zen-coding and the like, or a semi-wysiwyg HTML5/xhtml editor. It must encourage styles-based authoring and in fact make fingerpainting difficult. * Make an HTML5/xhtml to LaTeX converter, for PDF and print export. * Make an HTML5/xhtml to ePub converter, for eBooks. By the way, LyX still has to do that too :-) * Make it include features like math, footnotes, endnotes, bibliographies, and other outrageously difficult stuff. * Provide 2 way MSOffice import/export to satisfy those working with people stuck in the 20th century. * Provide tech support for people who call his "product" "bullshitish", when they're using versions not created or supported by himself. LyX's "bullshitish" problems leave a wide open gap in the "marketplace" into which he could place his "product". What an opportunity! By the way, I once contemplated making a simplified competing product. It's not easy. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
