Hi Ingo, > I work on mdoc(7) manual pages a lot, and i almost never look at any > kind of output to see whether the final formatting comes out in the > desired visual form. While writing, i exclusively think about the > logical structure of the text and the semantic function of each word > and symbol. (I do periodically check the rendered console output, > though - but only because finding typos is easier in the rendered form > than in the source code.) I certainly never look at HTML or > PDF/PostScript output to see whether it comes out right. I just > *know* it will - or if it won't then that's a bug in the formatter > which i have to fix.
Don't you ever forget to `\&' after a `.' that's not the end of sentence, for example, and not notice because it fortunately falls where it doesn't matter on the TTY but stands out when viewed in a higher-resolution format? I find looking at the PostScript/PDF valuable precisely because it's a different rendering and thus shows problems hidden by the rendering used when writing. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
