On 08/08/2021 15.11, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 08.08.21 13:24, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 08/08/2021 12.42, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
But the *availability* of editors does not harm you. So I don't understand why you object the possibility of using an editor instead of an web browser.
No, I object to the idea that I could find enticing the idea of editing plain text with tokens to produce formatting. I find that kind of editing disgusting.
Then just use the WYSIWYG editor. What's the problem with the *availability* of tools?
It is not the availability of tools, but the fact that you consider that /I/ could use vi (or (gah) notepad) to edit a document with some kind of advanced format. Again, I understand a coder likes the idea, but not a writer and you have to understand that. Yet another markdown language to learn? No way. For a similar reason, I don't translate man pages, and practically nobody does. The majority of man pages are not translated. Hey, this is another question for the project: what do you intend to do to translate man pages? And now that I think about this, will this new documentation be translated, and how? What about availability of offline tools to work in a WYSIWYG or WYMIWYG manner on markdown documents? If I google "what is markdown text" the first hit is "Getting Started | Markdown Guide" at https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/, and the first editor I'm offered is "Visual Studio Code text editor", not vi. Then it goes on to suggest tools that have the editor on the left pane and the rendered text on the right. For Linux it suggests ReText or ghostwriter, not vi, although I don't see photos. Ah, some photos of the later: https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
You people are happy with vi. The coder type of people. None mentioned editors like LibreOffice writer. That you don't is indicative of a mindset.
I would not be surprised if you could even edit markdown documents with LibreOffice nowadays. I would not install hundreds of megabytes of stuff to test this, though ;-)
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