[TUHS] Proliferation of book print styles
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Mon Jun 3 00:48:28 AEST 2024
On 2024-06-02 08:39, Douglas McIlroy wrote (in part):
> Perhaps the question you meant to ask was whether we were surprised when
> WYSIWYG took over word-processing for the masses. No, we weren't, but we
> weren't attracted to it either, because it sacrificed markup's potential
> for expressing the logical structure of documents and thus fostering
> portability of text among distinct physical forms, e.g. man pages on
> terminals and in book form orĀ technical papers as TMs and as journal
> articles. WYSIWYG was also unsuitable for typesetting math. (Microsoft
> Word clumsily diverts to a separate markup pane for math.)
I liken suffering through WYSIWYG for math to searching through drawers
of movable type pieces for the desired piece.
Some time ago, I read a nice article titled "What you see is all you
get" but I cannot find the link (and Google fails me miserably). Found
this, though: What has WSYIWYG done for us:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050207015413/http://www.ideography.co.uk/library/seybold/WYSIWYG.html
S.
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