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Comment by DarkUranium

LyX is specifically advertised not as WYSIWYG, but WYSIWYM ('M' = "Mean"). Note how the exported/final document looks very little like the in-UI one.

Typora & Obsidian apply the same ideas to Markdown.

I do think WYSIWYG is an absolutely broken paradigm for anything outside of literally just desktop publishing --- but WYSIWYM has a lot of merit.

Enough that I've been working on a stand-alone Markdown editor component that takes ideas from Typora et al.

parent DarkUranium 4 months ago

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