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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:10:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: Text formatting tools
From: Matt Wozniski <mjw@...>
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Xavier de Gaye wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Carsten Agger wrote:
>> ...
>> This script allows simple formatting like *italics* and _underline_, but
>> I'd like something a but more "shiny", which would e.g. also recognize
>> chapter and section headings and maybe even generate a TOC.
>>
>> Does anybody have any recommendations? There's txt2tags, which I just
>> found (http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/writing-book.html), and I suppose
>> one could write something similar to easily convert a text file to a
>> LaTex file, but as I said - do anyone have any experience using such
>> tools?
>
>
> You may want to have a look at docutils, http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
>
> "Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing
> plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX. It
> includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use,
> what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language."
>
> reStructuredText handles TOC, headings, lists, tables. The markup
> is such that the original text can be easily read as a plain text.
>
> reStructuredText is used for the Python documentation.
>
> I am using docutils and reStructuredText in a moinmoin wiki and find
> it very useful.
+1 for reStructuredText. Easy to write, readable in source form, and
looks good both in html and as latex converted to pdf.
~Matt
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I've been using vim to write articles and recently started using it for a book as well. I prefer to write everything as a text file w. textwidth=80 and have ...
Carsten Agger
agger@...
Jul 9, 2009 9:29 am
Saluton Carsten :) ... Don't know about the TOC, but a time ago I heard from a tool called "otl" that does more or less what you want. Anyway, if your plan is...
Raúl Núñez d...
raulnac@...
Jul 9, 2009 9:51 am
... Carsten, It doesn't do table of contents or chapter/section headings, but the Txtfmt plugin provides bold, underline, italic (and if you enable the option,...
Stahlman Family
brettstahlman@...
Jul 9, 2009 11:46 am
... You could try (multi) markdown (extended): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Relatively simple syntax (I use it, though I don't really like the syntax)...
J.A.J. Pater
jajpater@...
Jul 9, 2009 1:26 pm
... Thanks for all the tips - I'll check all of your suggestions out! It seems there are quite a few ways of doing this. :-) ...
Carsten Agger
agger@...
Jul 9, 2009 1:46 pm
... I may not have made it clear in my original post, but Txtfmt permits not just bold, underline, italic, etc..., but also all the permutations thereof. So,...
Brett Stahlman
brettstahlman@...
Jul 9, 2009 5:53 pm
... You may want to have a look at docutils, http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ "Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext...
Xavier de Gaye
xdegaye@...
Jul 9, 2009 4:20 pm
... +1 for reStructuredText. Easy to write, readable in source form, and looks good both in html and as latex converted to pdf. ~Matt ...
Matt Wozniski
mjw@...
Jul 10, 2009 3:10 am
... I'm fond of reStructuredText as well. The Python project uses Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/): "Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language,...
Michael Henry
vim@...
Jul 10, 2009 5:36 am
... Hash: SHA256 ... Hi Carsten, Another good almost-plain-text format is AsciiDoc [1] which I really like. It's similar to reStructuredText and is easy to ...
Simon Ruderich
simon@...
Jul 10, 2009 5:02 pm
... Call me old-school -- heh, I'm a *vi* user for crying out loud! -- but I use groff with the mdoc or the newer mom macros. I figure that if you're already...
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