What you see is all you get (WYSIAYG), the truth behind WYSIWYG.. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Does this make no sense or is it just me?
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 09:12:19 -0400, Eric D Rossman wrote: >"Seymour J Metz" wrote: >> >> The ISPF Edit Ref. does give REXX examples, but there are issues >> with some of them. >> Often ineptly, needlessly prefixing each command with ADDRESS ISREDIT when a single setting of the command environment would suffice. It may have been mindlessly translated from CLIST. >> The lack of synchronization would have been easy to fix had IBM >> continued using BookManager markup instead of WYSIAYG word processors. >> "A"‽ I see. The demise of reusable code. >I'm not going to air any dirty laundry but I definitely got the impression >that many of the pubs writers would agree with you regarding BookManager. > It's a pity that Bookie couldn't have been given backends to generate PDF and HTML to support viewers prevalent on multiple platforms. But I understand one driver was sheer size: Bookie couldn't accommodate the growth of PoOps or HLASM, e.g. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
