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Because eventually you'll want to insert an image with text wrapped around it, or really anything more complicated than straight-down text and tables, and "just

by nunez 2y ago

Because eventually you'll want to insert an image with text wrapped around it, or really anything more complicated than straight-down text and tables, and "just write HTML and CSS bro" is insanely unrealistic. Sure, WYSWIYG editors for Markdown could exist, but building these editors gets crazy complicated fast, and why would you when Office exists?

qrobit 2y ago
There's RStudio with its WYSIWYG "visual"[1] editor for markdown(ahem, rMarkdown or quarto, which are pandoc's markdown + extensions). It is quite feature-rich albeit I am unsure whether it supports wrapping images. I bet you can write a little inline CSS in a fenced div[2][3] for it, but it is likely not an option for casual user. What it does support is rendering all the goodies in plethora of output formats[4]: docx pdf, html for plain documents; revealjs(html), pptx, beamer(pdf) for presentations. You can even generate websites with it As for spreadsheets, RStudio supports both R and python which are incredibly powerful for manipulating and visualizing table-like data I won't argue that those are easy tools to learn, but if you do, you have much more power than with MS/{word,excel,powerpoint} [1]: https://rstudio.github.io/visual-markdown-editing/ https://rstudio.github.io/visual-markdown-editing/ [2]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-fenced_divs https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-fenced_divs [3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76421783/text-and-image-side-by-side-in-quarto-column-layout https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76421783/text-and-image-... [4]: https://quarto.org/docs/guide/ https://quarto.org/docs/guide/
WillAdams 2y ago
For that sort of thing, folks should import their Word (or other format) document into a tool such as Microsoft Publisher, or Scribus, or InDesign, or LaTeX.

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Because eventually you'll want to insert an image with text wrapped around it, or really anything more complicated than straight-down text and tables, and "just

by nunez 2y ago

qrobit 2y ago
There's RStudio with its WYSIWYG "visual"[1] editor for markdown(ahem, rMarkdown or quarto, which are pandoc's markdown + extensions). It is quite feature-rich albeit I am unsure whether it supports wrapping images. I bet you can write a little inline CSS in a fenced div[2][3] for it, but it is likely not an option for casual user. What it does support is rendering all the goodies in plethora of output formats[4]: docx pdf, html for plain documents; revealjs(html), pptx, beamer(pdf) for presentations. You can even generate websites with it As for spreadsheets, RStudio supports both R and python which are incredibly powerful for manipulating and visualizing table-like data I won't argue that those are easy tools to learn, but if you do, you have much more power than with MS/{word,excel,powerpoint} [1]: https://rstudio.github.io/visual-markdown-editing/ https://rstudio.github.io/visual-markdown-editing/ [2]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-fenced_divs https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-fenced_divs [3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76421783/text-and-image-side-by-side-in-quarto-column-layout https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76421783/text-and-image-... [4]: https://quarto.org/docs/guide/ https://quarto.org/docs/guide/
WillAdams 2y ago
For that sort of thing, folks should import their Word (or other format) document into a tool such as Microsoft Publisher, or Scribus, or InDesign, or LaTeX.