Re: Please stop writing specifications that cannot be parsed/processed by software

On 26/05/2023 01:55, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> But the guys/gals clicking on the word processor icon to write an 
> industrial washing machine safety standard likely are not prepared to
> invent something new.

On 26/05/2023 13:00, B Tommie Usdin wrote:
> [...] These people are often barely literate in the use of word 
> processors and if they have heard of XML are more likely to think of 
> machine-to-machine information exchange than prose documents.

The conditioning factor is, as always, the usability of the editor 
interface to writers who have never used anything else (or even know 
that anything else exists).

Fonto Editor is a huge step in the right direction, but has chosen the 
path of adherence to the Word paradigm for its familiarity, rather than 
the path of using the familiarity of the same widgets to implement the 
gathering of authorial intent. It would be nice to see Fonto tested with 
an alternative interface to do this.

Peter

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