On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:08, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Dan Armak wrote: > >If you look not at the users themselves (ie ignore their existing personal > >habits) but at what they want to with their program, don't you think > > WYSIWYM would fit much better in many cases? > > No, it will not. > > Most technical people, such as this audiance, is used to programming. > Programming is a classic case of WYSIWY mean. The problem with WYSIWYM > is that it requires a certain amount of faith, and a great amount of > mental extrapolation. These are skills that need to be aquired, and not > every mind is suited to perform them as well as other.
I suppose that applies to any task or skill, that not every mind is suited to perform them as well as another. Do you have evidence (other than by extrapolation from not everyone being able to learn programming) that there are (considerably many) minds around that are so unsuited to learning to use lyx, they are better off with the ugly drudgery of msword? -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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