Re: text formating

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 23:12:29 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> * Eli Zaretskii <<eliz@gnu.org> [2023-02-02 17:31]:
> > > Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2023 13:52:22 +0000
> > > From: Gottfried <<gottfried@posteo.de>
> > > 
> > > I don't understand why until now nobody made in Emacs a
> > > WYSIWYG Mode.
> > 
> > They did: it's called Enriched mode.
> 
> By reference from:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
> 
> In computing, WYSIWYG (/ˈwɪziwɪɡ/ WIZ-ee-wig), an acronym for What You
> See Is What You Get,[1] is a system in which editing software allows
> content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when
> printed or displayed as a finished product,[2] such as a printed
> document, web page, or slide presentation. WYSIWYG implies a user
> interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the
> end result while the document is being created.[3] In general, WYSIWYG
> implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document
> without having to type or remember names of layout commands.

Thank you for the lecture.  I surely needed it.

> Enriched mode is far from there.
> 
> At least user should be able to get same printed representation even
> if font sizes are not changed.

If you are talking specifically about WYSIWYG printing, then yes, we
still aren't where we should be, especially with non-ASCII text;
patches welcome.  But the OP didn't mention that, so this is not
necessarily what was the issue.