Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?

On 10/29/2024 4:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:15:32 +0000, David Wade wrote:

[“Reveal codes” is] difficult to do sensibly. Often the codes are
inherited through cascading styles, or by marking blocks of text, so
there isn't a direct mapping between the formatting of the display, and
the embedded charaters..

 The only reason WordPerfect needed that feature was because it used
embedded formatting codes, which other word processors do not. So they
have no “codes” to “reveal”.

All word processors embed formatting codes.
That is sort of the definition.
editor : enter text
word processor : enter text and formatting codes
Various runoff flavors, Tex/Latex, WP, old MSO binary format,
ODF, OOXML all use formatting codes of some sort.
The difference is the UI.
Writing Latex in EVE only support codes - no WYSIWYG.
MSO or LO only support WYSIWYG - no codes.
WP supported both semi-WYSIWYG (best possible on VT terminal)
and codes.
A lot of people liked that feature.
Whether it is practical to implement that feature today
is an open question. I believe both ODF and OOXML use
references, so that first a number of styles are defined
and then later the actual text just refer to styles.
Arne