HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Why not use “% WYSIWYG/LaTeX” to indicate resemblance to LaTeX output?


The idea is to have a similarity measure between what you see while editing and the output that you care about (e.g., LaTeX output, HTML output, etc.).

For example, such a similarity measure could show numerically just how much what you see while editing in TeXmacs is closer to LaTeX output than what you see while in editing in LyX.

For LaTeX output, maybe TeXmacs would have "90% WYSIWYG/LaTeX" while LyX would have "50% WYSIWYG/LaTeX".

For HTML output, maybe TeXmacs would have "80% WYSIWYG/HTML" while LyX would have "50% WYSIWYG/HTML".

Do you think this would be an improvement over using the term WYSIWYG?

Also, how might one define the similarity measure for this purpose?

  👤 brensmith Accepted Answer ✓
I keep my editor (emacs) window open for my LaTeX document, a second separate terminal window to compile my .tex document and see any errors that crop up, and a third window with Zathura to view the newly compiled document as it automatically reloads upon a successful compilation. I think that may cover what you're looking for?
👤 WolfOliver
what would be the use case of this measure?
👤 samsaga2
Try LyX