[dundee] Straw poll on editors / Word-processors

[Paul Sutherland]

Hi,

TinyMCE is another option which is worth evaluating:
http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/basic.php

For PDF generation I think PrinceXML offers the best transformation of HTML,
but it is a commercial product.

Thanks,

Paul

From:  Rob Carr <rob at carr.me>
Reply-To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date:  Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:45:15 +0100
To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject:  Re: [dundee] Straw poll on editors / Word-processors

 
If generating content I use markup for text copy (eg, Editorially,
iaWriter); if I'm doing something that requires layout I'll use DTP software
(InDesign etc). In most recent web apps I've worked on, any free text areas
tend to have only bold, italic, underline and bullet points. Media/Images
are treated as separate entities.

However, most normal users expect to have toolbar that looks like MS Word,
so that much of the semantic value of the text is then buried away in
embedded styles. 

The deciding factor on how much WYSIWYG you need is: are you generating a
near-finished document online, or are you building structured content [and
worry about presentation later]?

Rob
  

On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 14:31, Robert McWilliam wrote:
 
>  
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013, at 01:30 PM, Robert Ladyman wrote:
>> For hoow much of the document editing and creation that you perform would
>> something like the following be sufficient for?:-
>> 
>> http://ckeditor.com/demo
>> 
>> All, nearly all (with a few exceptions), none, somewhere in-between?
> 
> For me it would be pretty close to none.
> 
> I'll tend to be either working on documents using Word's change tracking
> and comments - which pretty much has to be done in Word - or I'm laying
> stuff out for printing so need pages and layout tools.
> 
> Luckily I don't have to do either very often.
> 
> Robert
> 
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