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

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