Comments on: WWYW2SWYGWINDWY — the case against WYSIWYG

By: mandarine

mandarine — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:08:38 +0000

You are absolutely right about the date thing. I had removed them some time ago thinking that it would not be a problem, as the posts I write tend to be timeless. And now I find I do care myself and am the first one to be bothered not to know when I wrote this or that.

So you win: I have just put the posting dates back.

Let me know if you really must have the commenting dates too.

By: Rustum

Rustum — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:58:05 +0000

Great blog. I found it via the p-books article, following your comment at Steven Poole’s blog.

I sometimes mess around with minimalist word-processors, but have not yet decided whether or which to use. As far as WYSIWIG word-processors go, I have one font I use, I don’t use stylesheets apart from the normal, and keep everything at its simplest level, typing until I am done before formatting.

In my academic days I used WordPerfect 6 and produced a 220 page document with it, with notes and bibliography, but avoided sub-documents and merging. WordPerfect was brilliant because of the way it implemented style codes, and because one could easily sort out problems through reveal codes.

In any case, I am enjoying your blog, but am a little bothered by the fact that there are no dates for posts. When I like a blog, I spend quite a lot of time reading, and like the historical frame that dates provide.

By: DevNull

DevNull — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:31:04 +0000

Nice article. Now I have to find a dead pink cow so that I can convince Word users that it’s not the best tool

By: mandarine

mandarine — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:39:01 +0000

I do not know about the XVIIIth or XIXth century, but back in medieval times, paper or parchment was so expensive that monks bleached ‘lesser’ books to write new things on them. These palimpsests can now be deciphered with modern techniques, so that long lost works once considered ‘lesser’ can be retrieved from oblivion.

I wonder whether future techniques will be able to undig all the layers of overwritten data from our hard disks.

By: LK

LK — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:55:54 +0000

And with paper being expensive probably and with no white-out available (or delete button), they had to be pretty careful with their words