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 from.

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 t

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

2022-12-26 Thread David Crayford
es Sent: Monday, December 26, 2022 6:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word 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 edit

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 bel

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 be

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 t

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 in

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

2022-12-26 Thread Charles Mills
them as PDFs, with 100% success. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Monday, December 26, 2022 6:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS

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

2022-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
U] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2022 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word Once we were done with Christmas morning, my son and his family took off for other Christmas venues and I spent

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 n