Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing supportfor DocBook

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Michael(tm) Smith wrote:

> I agree about the need to provide UI features to choose variable,
> etc. But that need is separate to how to handle the cases where a
> user really does just want to do simple bolding and italicizing of
> text. 

I won't argue the point about emphasis vs. strong emphasis. That's 
mostly historical. We could always have something like <emphasis 
strength="5"> if we really wanted.

However I do think that if the user just wants to do simple bolding and 
italicizing of text, then they just want to do presentation-based, 
non-semantic markup. And indeed they probably do want that, and that's 
OK. But if so they should be using Word, not DocBook.

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