From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, johnw@gnu.org, daniele@grinta.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1eu1qe-0004ZC-MD@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXoiSyi=3ua__xw2QN9XhtK=+SaHWjbdriHYM0ev=yHwBew@mail.gmail.com> (message from John Yates on Thu, 8 Mar 2018 09:54:43 -0500)
[[[ 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. ]]]
> My bottom line: The style models in MSWord and LibreWord represent
> years of incremental tweaking to ill-conceived initial models. Emacs
> has an opportunity to start afresh. If it really is going to pursue
> WYSIWYG document preparation it should not squander that opportunity.
I use Libre Office much in the way of themes or styles. It's fine for
the simple things I want to do. I can't be the only one who uses it
in a basic way. That is why I am sure that WYSIWYG word processing in
Emacs, if implemented at the same low level of sophistiation,
will be useful.
That doesn't mean I'm against those customization features. Quite the
contrary: given a WYSIWYG facility, I'm sure Emacs developers will
work on various kinds of style features and make them good.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-08 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 21:45 Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) John Yates
2018-03-07 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-07 23:29 ` John Yates
2018-03-08 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 14:35 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-08 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 14:54 ` John Yates
2018-03-08 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 16:02 ` John Yates
2018-03-08 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-08 20:09 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-08 20:09 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-03-09 22:17 ` Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E1eu1qe-0004ZC-MD@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=daniele@grinta.net \
--cc=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=john@yates-sheets.org \
--cc=johnw@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.