Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

Hi Hraban, The type of users that I would like to target, will be those writting documents of more than 10 - 12 pages. Typically students or professional that are used to write reports with Word but would be interested to use a more productive editor, but not ready to move too far away from WYSIWYG. For me, being able to work offline is almost a must have. Having an online mode could enable some interesting features, such as collaborative editing, but if the application is internet dependant and you have a problem with your internet connection, then you cannot do the very basics you would expect from a document editor. From my understanding, Atom is a modified version of Chrome that behaves like an offline editor, so that's an option that I would like to consider. Actually I am working for a web development company, I will submit the idea, as it could well be that there are other use cases, that I am not aware of, where such an editor as a web application could make sense. But still, a standalone application makes sense to me for the use cases I am considering. Cheers, Jonas Le 02.12.17 à 13:55, Henning Hraban Ramm a écrit :

Am 2017-12-02 um 08:42 schrieb Jonas Baggett :

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Hi everyone,

This is a blog post I recently published: https://jonas17b.wixsite.com/monsite/home/wysiwym-editor-on-top-of-context-l.... It is about some ideas I have for a WYSIWYM editor like LyX, but it would be designed for using more than 1 backend (e.g. ConTeXt, Lout), and to give a much better user experience.

Anyone interested by the concept? Hi Jonas,

sounds interesting, there might be overlap with what I tried for an editorial system (web-app on which I can’t work for the time being, since the customer plays dead and I got other projects): There I use an usual HTML editor plugin (TinyMCE, CKEditor) and would convert its output to ConTeXt and whatever the customer wants, most probably IDML (InDesign-XML). User formatting must be restricted to predefined styles (also WRT images). As far as I understood, Pragma has something similar running for educational material.

A standalone app like LyX wouldn’t fit my needs. Consider creating it as a plugin to some platform like Atom or a web framework?

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