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What would be really powerfull is a dual markup/WYSIWYG UI, like WPF in visual studio WordPerfect had this in the '80s. It's a conventional word processor, b
by adrianratnapala 10y ago
What would be really powerfull is a dual markup/WYSIWYG UI, like WPF in visual studio
WordPerfect had this in the '80s. It's a conventional word processor, but you could press the "Reveal Codes" function key and get a split-screen. The lower half would show all the markup. You could see and delete a tag explictly, and its matching one would also go away. Though of course, the markup was not indented.
My mother, -- a secretary -- used it all the time. But when she met other secretaries who came from an MS-Word backround, they hated the very existence of the feature. I think the last few editions of WP removed it (in order to cargo cult Word?).
Then they went out of business.
- ptaipale 10y agoWord has had that for a long time. In modern ribbon-interface Word versions, it's in the Home-Paragraph section, top right icon ("paragraph mark"). Additionally you can/should toggle field code display with Alt-F9. This has been in Word since, I think, Word for Windows 2.0 (circa 1992, for Windows 2.11). It might have also been in the previous DOS-based Word versions that co-existed with DOS-based WP (but since I used both, I can't always tell which features were in which).
- adrianratnapala 10y agoDo you mean those strange cryptic characters at the end of the paragraphs? That is not a lot like reveal codes, or like a markup language. Though I agree they are handy.
- ptaipale 10y agoMaybe not markup language, but the idea is to show the markup. To get a paragraph break, you still hit Return and don't try to type that end-of-paragraph marker. The field codes are more like an actual language; you can insert a field and then type the content in it.