After ATS and FORMAT, NSCRIPT was a joy; SCRIPTW and DCF only made things better, The ability to write macros to automate fancy formatting made me get fussy about layout details that previously had been too much effort. Having to go back to dumb :WYSIWYG" (Which I call What You See Is All You Get - WYSIAYG) was a shock. These days, while I use LibreOffice for short documents, I use LaTeX for anything serious and have visions of Open DCF.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Rupert Reynolds [rreyno...@cix.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 7:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages I've just been playing with Visual Studio Code with the Markdown All-in-One extension. Almost the first thing I read is that different .md viewers behave differently--to my mind the same problem as the downside of HTML. And I'm not convinced about significant white space (sp-sp-crlf) to get a line break, either. When I started with docs, it was Script/VS and GML. Hard work to learn, but it did what it said in the docs, consistently. And the index and TOC almost wrote themlseves. I'll keep playing a while longer, but I'm not seeing the advantage in Markdown get, except that in VScode I can write markup and ctrl-shft-V to get a preview. Roops On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, 01:01 Matt Hogstrom, <m...@hogstrom.org> wrote: > If you’re looking for something that is good for markup then Markdown is > widely used. If your looking for a tool to edit in and manage the > outlining of documents, promotion of headings and tracking of footnotes > then I will prefer Word but Google Docs is amazing and free. > > Matt Hogstrom > m...@hogstrom.org > +1-919-656-0564 > PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 > Facebook > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fmatt.hogstrom&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C89f21eb1a90646f2194208dae41534c8%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638073076993385028%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=efu%2FUOxRwYhek6g%2FMqVBxTCGgvrE0oJMYj9cOeirUww%3D&reserved=0> > LinkedIn < > https://linkedin/in/mhogstrom> Twitter > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhogstrom&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C89f21eb1a90646f2194208dae41534c8%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638073076993385028%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DSWaPn8hTLZw2MGKYEuqn8VAFKM85HEPca0izNnOZj4%3D&reserved=0> > > “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." > — Hogstrom > > > > > On Dec 21, 2022, at 7:38 PM, Thomas Kern < > 00000041d919e708-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > >> Anyone care to tell me again what they like for this task, please and > thank you? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
