There is a common belief that wysiwyg technical editors are not suited for editing structured texts and generating documents with a high typographical quality. In this paper, we analyze the reasons behind this belief. We next discuss the program GNU TeXmacs and some of its innovations in relation to the difficulties of structured, wysiwyg, technical text editing.
@article{CG_2001___39-40_39_0, author = {Van~der~Hoeven, Joris}, title = {GNU {TeXmacs,} {A} free, structured, wysiwyg and technical text editor}, journal = {Cahiers GUTenberg}, pages = {39--50}, publisher = {Association GUTenberg}, number = {39-40}, year = {2001}, language = {en}, url = {http://www.numdam.org/item/CG_2001___39-40_39_0/} }
Van der Hoeven, Joris. GNU TeXmacs, A free, structured, wysiwyg and technical text editor. Cahiers GUTenberg, Actes de GUT 2001 : « Le document au XXIe siècle », Metz, no. 39-40 (2001), pp. 39-50. http://www.numdam.org/item/CG_2001___39-40_39_0/