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Re: Text formatting tools


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On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:17:36AM +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
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> Till now, I've been happy with my small "view as HTML" script, but with
> the more elaborate structure needed in a book I'm beginning to feel its
> limitations.
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> Thanks in advance for any response,
>
> Carsten

Hi Carsten,

Another good almost-plain-text format is AsciiDoc [1] which I
really like. It's similar to reStructuredText and is easy to
read/write and very readable. It also has a good Vim syntax
hilighting.

It can be easily converted to HTML and through DocBook to many
other formats like LaTeX, PDF, etc. (It's also useful to create
man pages.)

Simon

[1]: http://methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
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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
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Jul 9, 2009
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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...
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Jul 9, 2009
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... 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,...
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Jul 9, 2009
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... 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)...
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Jul 9, 2009
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... 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
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... 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,...
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Jul 9, 2009
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... You may want to have a look at docutils, http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ "Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext...
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Jul 9, 2009
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... +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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Jul 10, 2009
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... I'm fond of reStructuredText as well. The Python project uses Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/): "Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language,...
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... 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
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Jul 10, 2009
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... 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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