On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 12:41:41 PM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote: >> I feel everybody's pain. As far as I know, there's not a single piece of software out there that authors quickly and yet does consistent, styles-based formatting and outputs to both PDF and HTML. But I'll keep searching.
> 1. You're screwed if you insist on wysiwyg. ... > 2. Some people spend their whole life complaining about missing tools, without any clear idea of what they want. I apologize for the insulting tone. A more helpful response would be something like this: 1. Those who are planning major writing projects would be well advised to make a serious study of the strengths and weakness of the major contenders, including Jupyter, LaTeX, reStructuredText, and Leo. And yes, it will take some study. wysiwyg editors and simplistic markup languages like markdown are too limiting. Better to invest in more powerful tools. 2. It is a great mistake to underestimate the capabilities of existing tools. I have made this mistake several times. 30 years ago, I despaired of using Emacs because I didn't understand that tab completion makes it unnecessary to remember full command names, or to type them. Had I understood this, I would likely have based Leo on Emacs. Leo's entire history would have changed, and I would not have spent much of the last 30 years dealing with tangential editor-related issues. In short,* please* take the time to study what is already possible. Major tools typically have dozens or even hundreds of contributors. It would be impossible to do better on one's own. HTH. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/dccc1911-96d5-4453-a376-fdabfb69fd5fn%40googlegroups.com.
