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3) The world needs a new type of word processor, where editing is done by structure. Users should then be able to render that data in different ways - styled fo

3) The world needs a new type of word processor, where editing is done by structure. Users should then be able to render that data in different ways - styled for printing, or for the web. At the moment data is very brittle. TeX solved this decades ago. In my understanding, there are several word processors that can output LaTeX. 13) For the love of god, please get somebody to take fifteen minutes and update notepad so that it respects unix line-endings. For the love of god, quit using Notepad! Wordpad is superior in every way. Seriously though, I used to have the same gripe as you until a took a couple minutes to set Wordpad as the default program for opening txt files. Microsoft needs to just make Notepad be a symlink to Wordpad and get rid of Notepad altogether.

CoryMathews 16y ago
Wordpad has hidden characters.. and is therefore not a suitable notepad replacement. Notepad++ would be closer.
- BrandonM 16y ago
  Really? I've had no trouble sharing files between Wordpad, cygwin, and unix while using Wordpad.
  - runjake 16y ago
    I have. I've gotten bit by the hidden char and char translation issues with Cisco configs. Often, it would cause units to halt on bootup -- quite annoying when said unit is 42 km away.
cturner 16y ago
> Word processing TeX could be a part of the technology stack for the solution I'm talking about, but neither it nor LaTeX are sufficient on their own. If they were, regular business users would be using them, and they're not. > Notepad When you send text documents to business types in an email, they click on it in exchange, and it opens in notepad automatically. They then don't know how to deal with the line-endings problem. It's shipped as a default tool, it should be good, it's not even adequate. That's similar to the telnet problem. It's not even my machine I care about, it's the people I deal with who use windows.

CoryMathews 16y ago

Wordpad has hidden characters.. and is therefore not a suitable notepad replacement. Notepad++ would be closer.

BrandonM 16y ago
Really? I've had no trouble sharing files between Wordpad, cygwin, and unix while using Wordpad.
- runjake 16y ago
  I have. I've gotten bit by the hidden char and char translation issues with Cisco configs. Often, it would cause units to halt on bootup -- quite annoying when said unit is 42 km away.

cturner 16y ago

> Word processing TeX could be a part of the technology stack for the solution I'm talking about, but neither it nor LaTeX are sufficient on their own. If they were, regular business users would be using them, and they're not. > Notepad When you send text documents to business types in an email, they click on it in exchange, and it opens in notepad automatically. They then don't know how to deal with the line-endings problem. It's shipped as a default tool, it should be good, it's not even adequate. That's similar to the telnet problem. It's not even my machine I care about, it's the people I deal with who use windows.