[Info-vax] Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

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