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I'd really like a WYSIWYG editor that's designed to produce HTML documents. Not for web pages, but for documents. HTML has great prose features, but it seems li
by crabmusket 3y ago
I'd really like a WYSIWYG editor that's designed to produce HTML documents. Not for web pages, but for documents. HTML has great prose features, but it seems like there's nothing in between Microsoft Word and "now you're building a website".
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoI guess one of the many Markdown editors is what you're looking for, then you just need to add a build step at the end. Unless you need any of the 'document' features of html that aren't in md, of course.
- bachmeier 3y agoI don't think so. They were pretty specific: "I'd really like a WYSIWYG editor".
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoThere are definitely Markdown editors that are WYSIWYG. In fact, md is a lot 'closer' to WYSIWYG than HTML is.
- crabmusket 3y agoI think HTML is a pretty decent semantic structure for documents. The WYSIWYG is good for convenience, as is markdown text format.
- crabmusket 3y agoI agree some of the WYSIWYG markdown editors are the closest thing to what I want. I quite like Obsidian's editor for what it is, which does a pretty good job balancing rendering and letting you edit the actual markdown syntax. But you're editing markdown, not HTML. And, for example, markdown doesn't have definition lists.
- pmlnr 3y agoNone of the visual markdown editors - the ones that render the text, eg. Typora - seem to support definition lists.