On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk> wrote:

> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
>
> >> Could people please start working on the features that are needed?
> >
> > I don't think that would be a productive use limited resources. Emacs'
> > feature set is either already at a place suitable for "word processing"
> > or astronomically distant depending on how you think about the problem:
> > Emacs already works _very_ well for document preparation using auctex,
> > nxml-mode, and so on. LibreOffice already covers the more conventional
> > WYSIWYG space and is free software.
>
> I agree with this. I don't know anyone who makes documents that I
> respect who thinks that WYSIWYG features are a good thing.
>
> That must be a misunderstanding. Of course WYSIWYS is a good feature for
many people. It is just that document structure must be uncoupled from
layout.

And LibreOffice etc has focused on this.