I would not go quite so far as Paul, but I think there are better places to put resources than WYSIWYG editing.
The beauty of Wiki is it is collaborative. Some people have ideas they don't articulate well. Some people are expert wordsmiths, but don't necessarily have ideas. Some people are editors and copyreaders. Some people delight in formatting arcana.
The downside of WYSIWYG is Bad Design. Now everyone with a pirated copy of Word is a publisher -- NOT!
I've been through various flavors of roff, TeX, Merganthalier and Quikset typesetting codes, HTML, and many others. I think the beauty of formatting code is it makes you think. Because of the "high entry fee" (aka "dumbass tax"), you spend a bit more time figuring out how things are going to go together, and it shows in the results.
That's one of the reasons I Don't Do Word. Most Word docs are atrocious, with multiple spaces used for indentation and multiple line feeds used for vertical spacing. Someone sends me a Word document, and by the time my translators get through with it, it needs to be re-formatted anyway. I avoid hurting anyone's feelings that I re-formatted their "masterpiece" by explaining that I don't have Word, and my translation software "must have messed it up." :-)
It's not that WYSIWYG doesn't have a place. But let's just keep it there, okay?
On 14 Mar 2005, at 00:28, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sunday 13 March 2005 02:22 pm, Axel wrote:
The built-in "html preview browser" refreshs it's view if you save the edited text to the local file system and let "you see what you get".
I believe the word you're looking for is YAFIYGI: You Asked For It, You Got It. I think YAFIYGI with a preview is a Good Thing(tm) for all the reasons the rotary phone was beautiful: They're both a dumbass tax. You have to think about what you're doing to properly phrase what you're going to say before you commit to it.
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