On 22-Oct-05 Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: [...]> > That's also a nice example of how painful is writing in XML. > You use a totally different tool (Vim) to help another tool that's > supposedly made to help you with XML (FrameMaker). > > Also, sections and lists are the least of my issues with XML. > Paragraphs like this one are the problem (quite frequent when writing > about computing): > > Use either <command>cp -a</command> or > <command>cp -Rdp</command> when copying, to preserve as much of > the original attributes of an application. > Then in <filename>rootfs/sbin</filename> make a > <emphasis>hard</emphasis> link from <command>mke2fs</command> to > both <command>mkfs.ext2</command> and > <command>mkfs.ext3</command>. > > If you count the characters in markup elements, they'll come quite > close to the number of characters in the real content of the > paragraph. I did the markup after writing, because the number of > interruptions of the thought process is mind-boggling otherwise.
Well, if you're using vim ... First enter the following (in command mode) to define abbreviations: :ab <c <command :ab /c </command> :ab <f <filename :ab /f </filename> :ab <e <emphasis :ab /e </emphasis> Then, in insert mode, enter: Use either <c>cp -a/c or <c>cp -Rdp/c when copying, to preserve as much of the original attributes of an application. Then in <f>rootfs/sbin/f make a <e>hard/e link from <c>mke2fs/c to both <c>mkfs.ext2/c and <c>mkfs.ext3/c. (which I did by copy&paste from another window which originally contained your original above, edited into the above form by :.,$s/<command>/<c/g etc) and vim automatically creates: Use either <command>cp -a</coomand> or <command>cp -Rdp</coomand> when copying, to preserve as much of the original attributes of an application. Then in <filename>rootfs/sbin</filename> make a <emphasis>hard</emphasis> link from <command>mke2fs</coomand> to both <command>mkfs.ext2</coomand> and <command>mkfs.ext3</coomand>. [Sorry, just flaunting my favourite editer]. I agree totally about the interruption to thought, though, and I don't think my trick would help much on that front (and in fact setting it up was made easy by having the final form in front of me; not so easy to do it "blind"). On the other hand, using simple groff macros for the font switches doesn't cause me any problems at all .. I wonder why ...? Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 22-Oct-05 Time: 23:45:44 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
