klooperator

Hi,

sorry for late reply ( notification for this topic ends up in social tab in gmail, for me that’s almost a spam folder :)).

I am not a writer myself, but I manage a lot of sites including some relatively big news organisations (20+ people) that use WP as their platform.
From there I know that most text are made in word or notepad, then they are send to for correction, internal reviews and then back fo publishing, at which point they are pasted to WP editor.
For some sites I manage I need to post a text written by someone, so I get it on Word or similar, and then paste it to WP.
After pasting everyone expects some small work to be done ( like headings, bolding, etc), but not much more.

Even if you write in WP directly, its kind a nice to have everything in one place. Imagine you are writing a longer text and you catched a strain of thought. You are writing and you want to insert heading. Normally you press Enter -> heading -> Enter and you style it up later. In gutemberg you have to stop-> click on + button -> find heading box -> write heading -> click on + button -> find paragraph box. Or alternatively you have to think of or look up some non human peace of code to do that. Any of this action will disrupt your writing.

We actually tried to teach both are young and old journalist to use markdown.But even that was to much. WP use a lot of different people and no all are used to writing code inline or hitting + button to create paragraphs.

I wish people invented some better way of text editing long time ago, but reality is that people are used to Word and everything up to this point was made similar to word because people are used to it. Reinventing the wheel is not always a better way.

What I do think is good is that this approach is better for preparing text for some mobile app or something similar. But you really have to hide this complexity from users. I use background script that parses text to array of object and text for that.