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oui

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Registered: 2013-01-20

Posts: 21

Text processing using pre-written text blocks

Hi

I am searching for a Text processing software, WYSYG able, using pre-written text blocks

with (better) or not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_(text)
boilerplate language or templates processor

like described at M$ https://support.office.com/fr-fr/articl … 43ddc4b186

(I don't know how to find the English original text!)

is there a Linux WYSYG text system able to do that? With language / templates processor? With (I hope big) text collection with index and possibly the ability to process using only marking in the index to collect the text blocks?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Text processing using pre-written text blocks

Aside from that WYSYG bit, I would say LaTeX.   My general experience with WYSWG is that it is a myth, what you get is never what you see.

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Trilby

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Re: Text processing using pre-written text blocks

... what you get is never what you see.

Sure it is.  It's just not what anyone else gets - especially when you send that "beautiful" word document over email.

WYSIWYSBOOYC: what you see is what you see, but only on your computer.  The first part highlights the tautological nature of such claims.  The second part is the generally-unmentioned complete failure for the product of these tools to ever display properly on anyone else's computer.

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