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Ask HN: Something that is to Word like what Sketch is to Photoshop?
I find Word (and Pages) cumbersome to use. Is there something that is to Word like what Sketch is to Photoshop? Sketch is so to-the-point and simple still powerful. I'd like a "word processor" that is like Sketch in those regards.
Maybe I should use InDesign? I used InDesign in a graphics design class I took because I as a software engineer wanted to get a better understanding of graphical design. From my experience at that time InDesign didn't have much support for layouting a large mass of text across multiple pages. It felt more like a tool used to manually lay out a number of boxes with text inside them inbetween graphical features and images.
I don't think I want LaTex; I don't want to have to learn an entire language before I can layout two pages with some images and text.
- based2 9y agoDocument automation: https://www.hotdocs.com/products https://www.hotdocs.com/products https://www.activedocs.com/ https://www.activedocs.com/ https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer/ https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer/ https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates/ https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates/
- eberkund 9y agoI am after the same thing, I use markdown + pandoc for myself but I think there is a real market for a simplified word processor like you're describing that can use complex templates. Think of like a business where they want people to use a standard format (font, heading, margins). It's all too easy to fuck those things up in word just by misclicking something when all you want to do is write and use a standard template.