My preference, alas, is dead: BookMagager BUILD/MVS (or VM), which is built on BookMaster and DCF. Lacking that, I make do with LaTeX, which I find powerful but clumsier that the tools built on Script.
I make extensive use of nested bulleted and numbered lists, and when I attempt to copy an entry to a different list, word garbles the markup horribly. Is there an equivalent to the reveal mode in word pervert that would allow me to correct that bug? The best that I've been able to come up with is to copy the entry to notepad and then copy from notepad. I would recommend a LaTeX environment, e.g., MiKTeX, TeXworks. Check out resources at CTAN. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 5:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Markup languages Either in this forum or in another I hang out in - I'm not sure which - a few months I remember a few comments about good ways to write extensive documentation. Somewhat to my surprise, quite a few people panned MS Word and Publisher and said the way to go is a good markup language. That's kind of nice to hear, because I’m having trouble with Word, especially when I want to add or change new appendices to my current work. At the time I thought I was mostly finished and didn't want to go through it all again, but now that fond wish seems less probable and I'm thinking maybe I should listen again to the recommendations I heard then and try out a few of them. By "extensive", in my case I mean something that can let me set the format for chapters and appendices and say half a dozen levels of paragraph headers, using legal paragraph numbering (ie 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc), lots of internal cross-references and maybe an external URL or three, a table of contents ... let's see ... probably not an index. What I imagine is that I would copy the text already written, insert the text markup tags, "compile" the results into Word or a PDF, and feel free to add cross references, paragraphs and appendices and recompile at any point thereafter. The documentation user needn't be aware of this process. Anyone care to tell me again what they like for this task, please and thank you? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. -Martin Luther King, Jr */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
