Douglas Tutty writes:
> I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I
> started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs:
I would recommend DocBook.
> Difficult to change things like margins
With DocBook this isn't as straightforward as with WYSIWYG
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 21:21 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> [...]
> Can't make html
> [...]
Bluefish is just perfect for that. It has syntax highlighting, and
one-click "view in browser" capability. I recommend it for any other
programming or markup also, like C, Pascal, m (Matlab file), php,
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I
> started with linux in 2000
> My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects. I
> don't like wys
Douglas Tutty wrote:
I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I
started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs:
Difficult to change things like margins
Can't make html
plain text output has blank lines that must be edited.
My
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:00:46PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
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> LyX
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> Kenward
> --
> In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be
> _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,
> because passing civilization along from one generat
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I
> started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs:
>
> Difficult to change things like margins
>
> Can't make html
>
> plain te
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:26:56PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects. I
> > don't like wysiwyg. I want to be able to make: ps, pdf, txt, html.
> >
> > Something like
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects. I
> don't like wysiwyg. I want to be able to make: ps, pdf, txt, html.
>
> Something like DebianDoc seems overkill for a letter.
I'd just use docbook (I haven't loo
Douglas Tutty wrote:
> I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I
> started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs:
>
> Difficult to change things like margins
>
> Can't make html
>
> plain text output has blank lines that must be edi
I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I
started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs:
Difficult to change things like margins
Can't make html
plain text output has blank lines that must be edited.
My primary use is for le
On %M 0, Jeff Noxon wrote
> I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document
> once, and then render it in the following formats:
>
> HTML
> Postscript
> PDF
> ASCII
>
I had a very similar requirement a while ago. I used docbook + jade + jadetex
to produce large, technica
> Quoting Jeff Noxon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > What tools can tackle this kind of chore and what are their relative
> > merits? Should I be looking at TeX or SGML tools? Or should I just stick
> > with plain HTML?
> I would look into using LyX. It's a frontend for LaTeX.
Not any more :) Now
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document
> once, and then render it in the following formats:
>
> HTML
> Postscript
> PDF
> ASCII
>
> I'm not concerned so much about a learning curve as I am about flexibility
> and resu
On 1999-04-12 15:17, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document
> once, and then render it in the following formats:
>
> HTML
> Postscript
> PDF
> ASCII
DocBook (SGML) + DocBook Stylesheets + Jade and Latex are the only
options that I can think of
Quoting Jeff Noxon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> What tools can tackle this kind of chore and what are their relative
> merits? Should I be looking at TeX or SGML tools? Or should I just stick
> with plain HTML?
I would look into using LyX. It's a frontend for LaTeX. It's
pseudo-WYSIWYG but still giv
I have no experience with SGML, but I can strongly recommend you to use
TeX, or more precisely, TeX together with its macro package LaTeX. It
gives you the most ample control about layout, it is
platform-independent, output is dvi which is routinely converted to ps
or pdf; conversion to ASCII and H
I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document
once, and then render it in the following formats:
HTML
Postscript
PDF
ASCII
I'm not concerned so much about a learning curve as I am about flexibility
and results. Microsoft Word and other GUI-based products drive me nuts
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