[REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro: how to handle tables?
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 23-Sep-2001 16:47
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> From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]On Behalf Of
> Gregg Irwin
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:18 PM
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> Subject: [REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro: how to handle tables?
> << not so experienced users don't understand the difference between usig
> space, tab etc. >>
>
> And they shouldn't have to.
Hi, well Joel answered the other parts very broad and I agree with him on these.
As the above one was my saying I'm going to answer this one:
I'm using make-doc-pro within my current project and the project manager uses it
too. It's not easy to get people used to the fact that they don't have a WYSIWYG
program like Word anymore. It took me some time until he agreed to use
make-doc-pro.
I agree with you about the needed syntax and that it should be as small and easy
as possible. On a daily base I can see how hard it is for those people to even
remember the heading syntax, which you can see... using whitspaces might be more
dumb-user compatible but as Joel wrote, IMO it's not possible to make it
unambigous. So using a logical delimiter character it shouldn't be to hard to
remember... Robert
