On Fri 10 Jul 2009 at 10:01:21 PDT Simon Ruderich wrote:
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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,
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>> Carsten
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>Hi Carsten,
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>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.
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>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.)

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 committed to the idea of marking up plain test, you might
as well go with the traditional solution. It's not really any harder to
learn than any of the newer markup tools.

I'm also very fond of the supplementary "little languages" like pic, eqn
and tbl. Being able to use them in my documents is a plus.

Of course, groff can output to PDF or HTML too, so no one needs to know
you used a dinosaur app to create the documents you circulate. ;-)



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