On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 09:34:59PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:48:51 +0000 > Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> wrote: > > Markdown is very limited, but what it does it does well, fast, and easy > for the author to read without conversion on every glance (or that > horror of horrors, WYSIWYG). I think I can add paragraph character > styles, within the format of Markdown, with low-distraction tags. The > result would be a Markdown doc that I could parse as XML (perhaps after > an HTML to XML conversion), with the ability to incorporate any > arbitrary character or paragraph style you want. > > Although this can't, by itself, handle book specialties such as > footnotes and bibliographies, it can create (I assume) XHTML that can > easily be converted to web, ePub, or LaTeX, with all appearance ruled > by CSS or LaTeX stylesheets. > reStructuredText is a markup laguage (i.e. it's similar to Markdown) but is designed for the job. It's quite readable in its native form and has conversion software for (I think, I haven't actually checked) HTML, LateX and others.
See:- http://docutils.sourceforge.net I use it quite a lot for writing my own documentation and notes. -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
