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I follow that viewpoint and am OK with the direction being taken. On the other hand, even after asking many, I have never received a good answer to why the exa
by alok-g 7y ago
I follow that viewpoint and am OK with the direction being taken.
On the other hand, even after asking many, I have never received a good answer to why the exactness and understanding cannot be obtained with a WSYIWYG/M markup editor.
- johnmorrison 7y agoThey abstract away from the underlying code. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference between {b Bolded} {b text} and b Bolded text this becomes especially concerning with TeX, custom styling, etc
- alok-g 7y agoThat makes sense, and I can imagine that. However, should it not be possible for the software to find a minimal cover for the formatting that would produce the same visual output, thereby practically recovering what hard-crafted markup would have been? Thanks.
- johnmorrison 7y agoYeah, if I'm interpreting your words correctly, this would be like turning p {b This} {b text is} {b bolded} this isn't into p {b This text is bolded} this isn't But then the issue is as follows: In Polymath, I'm planning on allowing basically arbitrary CSS styling by parent, id, class, etc. So if the user later wants to do something like put a rounded box around each span of bolded text, those two, while initially looking identical in WYSIWYG, end up completely different.
- alok-g 7y agoI can take that. Thanks.