What an opportunity: was ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

2014-03-30 Thread Steve Litt 
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

What an opportunity: was ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

2014-03-30 Thread Steve Litt 
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

What an opportunity: was ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.1.0 (rc1)

2014-03-30 Thread Steve Litt 
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:08:24 -0300
John Coppens  wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:22:41 +0100
> Wolfgang Keller  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