Re: WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

[Jonas Baggett]

Le 02.12.17 à 08:49, Weaver a écrit :
> Some might.
>
> I tried Lyx when I was starting out with LaTeX, but much prefer
> Texmaker.
> The more you have done for you, the less configurability options you
> wind up having access to.
> I may have it wrong, but the concept you're advocating sounds something
> along the same line.
> You may well service a demand, but that demand may not be as large as
> you envisage it to be, and once they have it down, many users could well
> wander away looking for something a little more in the control
> department.
>
> Cheers!
Hi Weaver,

Speaking from my experience, I was once working on a semester project 
report of over 60 pages in Word, and spending a lot of time for doing 
and redoing formatting, then a friend of mine spoke to me about LyX and 
I really appreciated being able to focus on the content without being 
distracted by the formatting. But at some point, I would like to see how 
the document looks like once exported and that's where I have lost a lot 
of time trying to customize the document to make it look the way I want.

From my case, thru ERT and document preambule, I had with LyX 99% of 
the time the level of configuration that I need. Once I needed something 
more powerful for cover letters that I was writing which needed to be 
dependant on the language, the gender of the recipient and whether 
he/she was leaving abroad or not, so I wrote the letter directly in 
ConTeXt. The problem with LyX was the time needed to find out how to 
make things work via ERT.

IMHO, the type of user that can be targeted by such an editor that I 
suggested, will be those writting rather classical documents of more 
than 10 - 12 pages and wanting to be able to focus much more on the 
content than in the formatting but still have good looking results. 
Typically students or professional that are used to write reports with 
Word but would be interested to use a more productive editor, but not 
ready to move too far away from WYSIWYG.

You are also right: this editor can also attract people that have first 
no clue about typesetting languages, and then discover at the end that 
they prefer to compose their document directly in one of these 
typesetting langue. But it could be that without this editor, they would 
have never heard about ConTeXt or Lout.

Cheers,
Jonas