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by anon4 4401 days ago
> they start doing formatting oriented things such as add spacing using actual spaces

Then perhaps the space key on the keyboard should be tied to adding spacing, rather than space characters. That's really a failing of the WYSIWYG editor to take into account normal computer peripherals. The user wants space. The user has a large board with keys on it with a huge "space" key. The user presses the large space key and gets space. A good WYSIWYG editor should account for the fact that my keyboard has keys on it that aren't letters.

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Let's continue with that approach.

Then maybe hitting a letter should only render the letter at the same size and font as the one printed on the keyboard.

And if you want to change the font, well it's just a drawing, so you can't. It would make the keyboard non-WYSIWYG.

I was advocating the exact opposite.