On 2/21/06, T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:10:19AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Well, people who are that clueless about the nature of HTML and Web publishing are going to get an education pretty soon, anyway. They'll either adapt or walk away, I suppose.
Hear, hear. I just hope you're right... :-)
And it definitely is WYSIWYG, it's just not WYSIWTG (... They Get). As one person pointed out in something I read several years ago, WYSIWYG should really be called WYSIAYG (... All You Get). WYSIWYG seemed pretty cool when GUI-based personal computers came to electronic publishing (before which it was stuff like the roff family of processors and other varieties of overt mark-up), but it's an impoverished model for real publishing, suitable only for small-scale works and one-off tasks.
I reckon that's one of the reasons why LaTeX is still pretty much alive, fortunately. BTW: Wasn't it LaTeX -> LyX that came up with "WYSIWYM" (... You Mean)
That's what Dennis M. Ritchie said about troff, but which is also true for (La)TeX. \Steve