Long have I said, " Word processors are to words as food processors are to food,"
The root of the trouble is that word processors intermingle the tasks of writing and the task of formatting. This might be fine for the odd office memo, but is ill suited to almost anything else.
That said, word processors are nothing compared to the hell that is writing comments on a touch screen with a predictive text algorithm that refuses to swear!
> The root of the trouble is that word processors intermingle the tasks of writing and the task of formatting.
I completely agree. Software developers and even physical product developers have (or attempt to have) development workflows that separate the content creation from the style.
There is a good reason for that: it is far easier to focus on these things separately than all at once.
You would think Word and other tools for writers would adopt the same ideas in an effort to make their users more productive.
The root of the trouble is that word processors intermingle the tasks of writing and the task of formatting. This might be fine for the odd office memo, but is ill suited to almost anything else.
That said, word processors are nothing compared to the hell that is writing comments on a touch screen with a predictive text algorithm that refuses to swear!