On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:16:09 -0500 Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 19:29:58 -0400 > Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't get it. Everything I've ever seen tells me that RTF is an > > almost-opaque text format whose only real asset is it's the one way > > incompatible MSOffice versions can work on each others' content. > > I think the term "rich text" is being used informally to mean "text > with bold / italic / color / bullet lists / etc." edited in a wysiwyg > way. The only file format being considered is HTML. In that case I withdraw my comment about rich text. I was thinking of: {\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}\f0\pard I can't read this garbage! {\b bold} text.\par } [clip] > rst does support what you're calling style based authoring, you can > define roles: > > .. role:: litt_style > > And then the :litt_style:`wheel` fell off! > > yields > > <p>And then the <span class="litt-style">wheel</span> fell > off!</p> > > when converted to HTML, or > > And then the \DUrole{litt-style}{wheel} fell off! > > when converted to LaTeX. In both cases you'd need to define what the > role means, in CSS and LaTeX. I didn't know that. I'll give rst and Markdown another look. > I'd use something like rst or LaTeX rather than "rich text" myself, > I'm fine with *important* things like /italicized text/ being > indicated with asterisks and slashes. But rich text could be quite > useful, if it can be done using other tools. > > And yes, if I was writing a book, I'd definitely use Leo, but I'm > not :-) First chance I get, I'll evaluate Leo as a book authoring tool. HTML and XHTML are pretty good, and LaTeX is good if ePub/Mobi/Kindle/iPad aren't in your list of targets, but it looks to me like Leo might be able to accommodate all of that plus a lot of metadata that wouldn't appear in the finished book. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
