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Re: Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

#11

Post by analogpixel »

at this point, a WYSIWYG just seems like a huge step backwards from just using markdown. I love having access to my files in a standard text format this is super easy to parse, and not being locked into whatever weird format that WYSIWYG decides to store it in.

I still don't understand why people still use ~~Microsoft Word~~Copilot document writer , I think they have gotten into some weird mindset that their documents require all this weird unnecessary formatting to look "official"

Re: Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

#12

Post by avryhof »

chrisecker wrote: post #6
avryhof wrote: post #4

Looks like a nice project. Looks like you missed a file, though. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'miniword.core.utils' I don't see it in my local clone of your repo, nor the repo iteslf.

My apologies. I added the missing file.

Thanks. I got it to run on my work laptop that runs Windows. Selections don't work, and cairo spits out a bunch of errors during the screen redraws.

I'll give it a shot on my own Ubuntu laptop.

Re: Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

#14

Post by httpsterio »

analogpixel wrote: post #11

at this point, a WYSIWYG just seems like a huge step backwards from just using markdown. I love having access to my files in a standard text format this is super easy to parse, and not being locked into whatever weird format that WYSIWYG decides to store it in. I still don't understand why people still use ~~Microsoft Word~~Copilot document writer , I think they have gotten into some weird mindset that their document…

Markdown without formatting isn't usually the nicest to read imo. I actually appreciate a well laid out and formatted document myself.

Also wysiwyg doesn't mean it can't be back and forwards compatible with markdown, it might just mean that it's a markdown editor gui with a preview.

Re: Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

#17

Post by sakesun »

analogpixel wrote: post #11

at this point, a WYSIWYG just seems like a huge step backwards from just using markdown. I love having access to my files in a standard text format this is super easy to parse, and not being locked into whatever weird format that WYSIWYG decides to store it in. I still don't understand why people still use ~~Microsoft Word~~Copilot document writer , I think they have gotten into some weird mindset that their document…

Yes. These days, with plain text, pasrsers, Internet, mobile devices and LLM, we really get more than what we see. Only few case where paper print out is still more useful.

Re: Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

#19

Post by layer8 »

httpsterio wrote: post #14
analogpixel wrote: post #11

at this point, a WYSIWYG just seems like a huge step backwards from just using markdown. I love having access to my files in a standard text format this is super easy to parse, and not being locked into whatever weird format that WYSIWYG decides to store it in. I still don't understand why people still use ~~Microsoft Word~~Copilot document writer , I think they have gotten into some weird mindset that their document…

Markdown without formatting isn't usually the nicest to read imo. I actually appreciate a well laid out and formatted document myself. Also wysiwyg doesn't mean it can't be back and forwards compatible with markdown, it might just mean that it's a markdown editor gui with a preview.

It’s also not nice to write longer text in monospace. Or to have long URLs interrupt the text just because you want a hyperlink on some word. Or having to lay out tables by hand like ASCII art. Seeing *this* isn’t the same as seeing this. And you need custom editor software anyway to have affordances like TOC navigation.

Re: Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

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Post by yummybrainz »

layer8 wrote: post #19
httpsterio wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Markdown without formatting isn't usually the nicest to read imo. I actually appreciate a well laid out and formatted document myself. Also wysiwyg doesn't mean it can't be back and forwards compatible with markdown, it might just mean that it's a markdown editor gui with a preview.

It’s also not nice to write longer text in monospace. Or to have long URLs interrupt the text just because you want a hyperlink on some word. Or having to lay out tables by hand like ASCII art. Seeing *this* isn’t the same as seeing this . And you need custom editor software anyway to have affordances like TOC navigation.

> long URLs interrupt the text just because you want a hyperlink

This annoyed me until I realized pandoc supports separating [the link text] from the link location.

  [the link text]: 
      "`title` parameter of the  tag, if converted to HTML"
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