On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>         [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
>         [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
>         [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
>
>     There are a lot of reactions on this thread that seem somewhat hesitant
>     about emacs adding WYSIWIG support, but I suspect it's fear that #2
> will
>     corrupt the lisp machine interfaces that we already know and
>     enjoy... but I doubt that the emacs community would let that happen
>     anyway.
>
> Lisp is one of the benefits of Emacs that I wish I had when doing
> WYSIWIG word processing.  To abandon that would defeat the whole point
> of this.
>

Perhaps extensions can be used:

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/