Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-13 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:35:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:39:34 +0100 > Svante Signell wrote: > > > On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 13:33 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > > >  We use LaTEX in technical documents,  > > > > > > LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which i

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-13 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:35:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:39:34 +0100 > Svante Signell wrote: > > > On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 13:33 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > > >  We use LaTEX in technical documents,  > > > > > > LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which i

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:39:34 +0100 Svante Signell wrote: > On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 13:33 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > >  We use LaTEX in technical documents,  > > > > LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which is make beautifully > > typeset documents whose linefeeds are determined at c

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 12:13:11PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 12/11/2017 à 00:39, Svante Signell a écrit : > >On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 13:33 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > >>>  We use LaTEX in technical documents, > >>LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which is make beautifully > >>typeset documen

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-12 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 12/11/2017 à 00:39, Svante Signell a écrit : On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 13:33 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:  We use LaTEX in technical documents, LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which is make beautifully typeset documents whose linefeeds are determined at compile time, not at read time (like e

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-11 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 13:33 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > >  We use LaTEX in technical documents,  > > LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which is make beautifully > typeset documents whose linefeeds are determined at compile time, not > at read time (like ePub, HTML or Xhtml). The problem is

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 01:33:28PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:15:44 + > LaTeX is wonderful *for what it does*, which is make beautifully > typeset documents whose linefeeds are determined at compile time, not > at read time (like ePub, HTML or Xhtml). The problem is that

[DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-11 Thread jacksprat
Steve: Thanks for the detailed reply. Bluefish was not a package in Salix Linux, so I downloaded the source and muddled my way though {autoconf; ./configure; make; sudo make install} and tried it on some leapad files. I don't expect to live long enough to explore all its possibilities! I am

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:15:44 + jack da wrote: > Steve Litt: these days I write all my personal documents with > Leafpad, which adds word-wrap capability to what can be achieved with > plain text editors ex, nano, etc. If you include Vim in that list, Vim has at least one Zencoding plugin. W

[DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-11 Thread jack da
Steve Litt: these days I write all my personal documents with Leafpad, which adds word-wrap capability to what can be achieved with plain text editors ex, nano, etc. I discovered that I cannot access the raw MarkDown text of the original Alternative Init .. document [copy+paste from the talk.devu

[DNG] Documentation format philosophies: was Different philosophies

2017-11-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:17:26 + jack da wrote: > [Jaromil] > > When I write about the Busybox version of sinit-rc [as I call the > original sinit plus sh scripts rc.init and rc.shutdown], it should > again be in MarkDown format. I am not sure if it will fit in with > dev1galaxy. I will writ