On Thu, 29 May 2008 10:26:42 +0800 jam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2008 09:49:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a simple text formatting language/package? > > > > > > To explain a bit more: I want a formatting language that's text > > > based (so it's easier to keep track of diffs in source control, > > > and editable in vim), for doing stuff you'd usually do in Open > > > Office Word Processor > > > - bullet points, bold/italic, tables, etc. I'd like output in > > > pdf, so it's easily printable cross-platform. > > > > > > I've briefly thought about things like LaTeX, postscript and > > > Docbook, but they all seem overkill for what I want to do, and > > > will take too much time to learn. > > > > If it is really simple stuff then go back in time to groff > > > > This is the way man pages are written. It is installed on most > > systems I would guess. > > What he ment to say your honour sir, > > You can learn simple groff in 5 minutes > > You can do the utmost amazing stuff with groff, it's ideal for > backing up, for comments, for version control, and it's trivially > easy to use W Stevens did all the stuff for 'Unix Network > Programming' upto camera ready pre-press with groff
And, using it with the MOM macros makes it closer to a "modern" markup language: http://linuxgazette.net/107/schaffter.html http://gretchen.homelinux.org/mom/mom.html > > James > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
