Re: AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding

[Martin Kew <Martin.Kew@vsl.com.au>]

Patrick M�rissert-Coffini�res wrote:

>  ... Then Leslie Lamport made the very point that Sven Utcke is making: that pure
> wysiwyg encouraged people to forget the structure of what they were doing, So I
> thing LyX, with the wysiwyM idea is a wonderful approach. In a way it is a
> compromise of course, since it is still possible to twist the structure, but at a
> higher level, and this is in my mind analogous to high-level languages that do not
> prevent totally the programmer from doing unnatural thins, just make it easier for
> the willing programmer to resist the temptation of doing so.

Patrick, I whole heartily agree and would like to extend the statement by saying that:
The act of diminishing or removing the translation step from desired structure to
concrete ASCII syntax (with the use of the wysiwyM concept).  Places the author at a
higher semantic level in a document's generation, i.e. the author does not have to
think about hand translating the desired structure to the required LaTeX syntax, but
can concentrate on the document's form and structure.
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