To most people I would imagine the Story Editor looks a bit pointless. For one thing, it is presented in the plainest of plain text. That's just ugly. The Story Editor, as it's name implies, is concerned with content and not fancy formatting. As shown in my previous post on Conditional Text, it can also enable the easy selection of anchored objects. But there is more, including seeing styled content at a glance, tracking changes to documents, easily viewing or adding xml tags and having footnotes appear next to their references. There are plenty of reasons to edit within the Story Editor. So, forget formatting for a moment, take a deep breath and climb onboard the Story Editor express.
