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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