Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread David Crayford
On 27/12/22 10:43, Ed Jaffe wrote: My team uses https://vuejs.org/. At the moment we only build HTML but there are packages to render a multitidue of different formats including PDF, word docs etc. Extensions are written in Typescript or Javascript so there is a massive eco-system to pull

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/26/2022 6:17 PM, David Crayford wrote: My team uses https://vuejs.org/. At the moment we only build HTML but there are packages to render a multitidue of different formats including PDF, word docs etc. Extensions are written in Typescript or Javascript so there is a massive eco-system

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread David Crayford
MS Word is a great product for it's main use case. I don't consider it a good choice for technical documentation and neither does the Information Developer in my team. There are many better tools out there, some of which are free. Documentation in today's world can be published in many

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Bob Bridges
In fact I did not. Good point. It happens I'm still logged on at the client cite; let's try it there... Nope, same problem. Nevertheless I was hasty to blame Word; it's very possible I just didn't set it up correctly in the .docx format. I know better than to manually set formatting and

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 26/12/2022 20:52, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:52:16 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: ... This morning I emailed the Word document to myself and tried saving it as PDF. Turns out Word is awful at that too. It skipped over most of the ToC and jumped from there straight to the

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:52:16 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >... >This morning I emailed the Word document to myself and tried saving it as >PDF. Turns out Word is awful at that too. It skipped over most of the ToC >and jumped from there straight to the beginning of the second chapter, >omitting

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 26/12/2022 17:54, Charles Mills wrote: I have avoided replying on this thread. It is not my job to shill for Microsoft on a mainframe forum. However, just to get the facts on the record, let me say that I have been composing very complex manuals with included text and generated TODs and

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Charles Mills
I have avoided replying on this thread. It is not my job to shill for Microsoft on a mainframe forum. However, just to get the facts on the record, let me say that I have been composing very complex manuals with included text and generated TODs and indexes in MS-Word for years, and publishing

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
If you will be writing your own macros, I'd suggest looking at expl3 (LaTeX 3) and friends; still experimental, but quite handy. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Bob Bridges
Once we were done with Christmas morning, my son and his family took off for other Christmas venues and I spent most of the day downloading MiKTeX (an editor for LateX) and reading documentatino. Finding the documentation was a bit of a chore and I'm not satisfied yet that I have everything I'll

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
TeX is the underlying language. I believe that most people use a document development environment with an editor and preview facility. Some of the available environments can automatically download required packages from CTAN. It is possible to generate a PDF without an intermediate DVI file.

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
I doubt it, since mark was primarily interested in XEDIT compatibility. Similarly, I don't expect to see a chart comparint e.g., ooRexx, Regina, to KEXX. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List