Re: Markup languages: LaTeX and internal links

2023-01-01 Thread Rupert Reynolds
I can't answer your specific query, but when I added the hyperref package, TOC entries became links, and I could add http: and mailto: links, such as as \href{http://www.latex-tutorial.com}{LaTeX-Tutorial} and I suspect there is syntax for an internal \href that I haven't found yet. I have used

Re: Markup languages: LaTeX and internal links

2023-01-01 Thread Bob Bridges
Yeah, this looks like it'll help, thanks. I downloaded that package (and a ~bunch~ of styles came with it), but then got hung up on trying to modify the way it displays chapter headings; that, I gather, is the titlesec package, for which the documentation is truly execrable. I'll be back to

Re: Markup languages: LaTeX and internal links

2023-01-01 Thread Mark Jacobs
Is this what you're looking to do? https://latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/hyperlinks/ Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com --- Original Message --- On Sunday, January 1st,

Re: Markup languages: LaTeX and internal links

2023-01-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
LaTeX documentation i downloaded: m:\pdf\ctan\latex\aliascnt.pdf m:\pdf\ctan\latex\array.pdf m:\pdf\ctan\latex\babel\babel.pdf m:\pdf\ctan\latex\babel\english.pdf m:\pdf\ctan\latex\babel\README m:\pdf\ctan\latex\babel\README.md m:\pdf\ctan\latex\backref.pdf m:\pdf\ctan\latex\biblatex.pdf

Re: Markup languages: LaTeX and internal links

2023-01-01 Thread John McKown
Does this help? https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/581529/hyperlinks-to-a-separate-pdf-document On Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 10:21 Bob Bridges wrote: > Back to markup languages: How do I get LaTex to create internal links? Or > external links either, for that matter? > > I now have a copy of

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Bob Bridges
I am definitely planning to write macros ... eventually. Clients pay me to work in z/OS security, but I'm a coder at heart (so most of my security work is writing tools to automate my work and others'). But just now I'm busy with the basics: page margins, section formatting, that kind of thing;

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Shmuel, Peter is asking why you called WordPerfect "word pervert". I'm guessing it was an autocorrect thing... Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, D

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Colin Paice [colinpai...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 3:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages It may be horses for courses... 1. What needs to be supported Windows/Mac

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Pommier, Rex
DU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Markup languages ? Actually, it's m$ word that I criticize. Not that WP didn't have serious issues, but IMHO it is clearly the better of the two products. But I had access to BookMaster when I was using WP. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mas

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
of Rupert Reynolds [rreyno...@cix.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 6:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, 08:23 Colin Paice, wrote: ... > > You can tell how old I am when my brain thinks of ":p:h1 " when > marking up a

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Bob Bridges
Yes, I suspect that once I know a good deal more about LaTeX I'll be creating a new class in a file named docrhb.cls. But I'm nowhere near that yet. For now I'm still experimenting with {report} just so I can see what the various commands do. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Rupert Reynolds
In fact I think TeXworks on Win came with texlive (install-tl-windows.exe). On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, 11:59 Rupert Reynolds, wrote: > > Installed 'texlive' on Linux Mint and TeXworks on Windows and it all seems > to work pretty well :-) > > So thanks for a good thread. > > Roops >

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Rupert Reynolds
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, 08:23 Colin Paice, wrote: ... > > You can tell how old I am when my brain thinks of ":p:h1 " when > marking up a document > > Colin > Yes, those GML tags still come to mind. In my head I also ".kp on" and ".kp off" around sections I want to keep together on one

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Robin Vowels
I used an early version of Word for Windows for writing a 1,000-page document. No mark-up language required. It also produced automatically the index. When I wanted to put more entries in the index, it was a minute's work. Then press F8 and the entire index was regenerated as a Word document

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Colin Paice
t;> >> >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf >> of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 6:38 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: Markup l

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-27 Thread Colin Paice
___ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 6:38 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Markup languages > > I got quite a few nomi

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread David Crayford
On 27/12/22 10:43, Ed Jaffe wrote: My team uses https://vuejs.org/. At the moment we only build HTML but there are packages to render a multitidue of different formats including PDF, word docs etc. Extensions are written in Typescript or Javascript so there is a massive eco-system to pull

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/26/2022 6:17 PM, David Crayford wrote: My team uses https://vuejs.org/. At the moment we only build HTML but there are packages to render a multitidue of different formats including PDF, word docs etc. Extensions are written in Typescript or Javascript so there is a massive eco-system

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread David Crayford
26, 2022 6:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word Once we were done with Christmas morning, my son and his family took off for other Christmas venues and I spent most of the day downloading MiKTeX (an editor for LateX) and reading

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Bob Bridges
In fact I did not. Good point. It happens I'm still logged on at the client cite; let's try it there... Nope, same problem. Nevertheless I was hasty to blame Word; it's very possible I just didn't set it up correctly in the .docx format. I know better than to manually set formatting and

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 26/12/2022 20:52, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:52:16 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: ... This morning I emailed the Word document to myself and tried saving it as PDF. Turns out Word is awful at that too. It skipped over most of the ToC and jumped from there straight to the

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:52:16 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >... >This morning I emailed the Word document to myself and tried saving it as >PDF. Turns out Word is awful at that too. It skipped over most of the ToC >and jumped from there straight to the beginning of the second chapter, >omitting

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 26/12/2022 17:54, Charles Mills wrote: I have avoided replying on this thread. It is not my job to shill for Microsoft on a mainframe forum. However, just to get the facts on the record, let me say that I have been composing very complex manuals with included text and generated TODs and

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Charles Mills
them as PDFs, with 100% success. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Monday, December 26, 2022 6:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2022 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word Once we were done with Christmas morning, my son and his family took off for other Christmas venues and I spent most

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

2022-12-26 Thread Bob Bridges
Once we were done with Christmas morning, my son and his family took off for other Christmas venues and I spent most of the day downloading MiKTeX (an editor for LateX) and reading documentatino. Finding the documentation was a bit of a chore and I'm not satisfied yet that I have everything I'll

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
, December 22, 2022 6:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages I got quite a few nominations from the two forums where I posted this question, and it's early days to say I've settled on one, but currently I'm looking hard at LaTeX. I found a tutorial on it at javatpoint.com

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, at 12:51, Seymour J Metz wrote: > emacs > THE > vi > ... I've never used either e

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, at 12:51, Seymour J Metz wrote: > emacs > THE > vi > ... I've never used either emacs or vi and don't much want to have to learn another text editor's command set. Regarding THE, is there a list anywhere of what the differences between it and Kedit are? Wading through

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:01:04 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Steep learning curve? DocBook looks pretty simple. > That would imply a steep learning curve, wouldn't it? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Bob Bridges
Yeah, that's what he said: "Steep". So you learn fast and easily. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* November: John Kerry easily sweeps to a 53-state landslide victory in the exit polls and has pretty much picked out his new Cabinet when word begins to leak out that

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 10:01 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Steep learning curve? DocBook looks pretty simple. > Of course I didn't mean you :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
Steep learning curve? DocBook looks pretty simple. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Kirk Wolf Sent: Friday, December 23, 2022 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Years ago we looked for a tool set for our

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Dave Jones
I have Waterloo Script here on z/VM and it includes the assembler source. DJ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
Years ago we looked for a tool set for our documentation with the requirements: - produce decent PDFs and HTML documentation from same source - text source (preferably XML) - open source and portable - NOT Word or anything like it We ended up using the docbook framework from Apache (DBF), which

Re: Markup languages - RTF and bloooooooooooooooooooatware...

2022-12-23 Thread Robert Prins
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 01:35, Bob Bridges wrote: > I thought about RTF. It is a markup language, after all, and I was > recently able to write a REXX program that converts plain text to RTF with > formatting including lots of fonts and a two-column layout (the > error-message part of a friend's

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
] on behalf of Thomas Kern [0041d919e708-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 7:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Showing my age... I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began writing Data Center Operation manuals

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 5:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 22:11, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Alas, KEDIT is missing important functionality. Yes, but for those of us without your favourite, what e

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Farley, Peter [031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 7:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Shmuel, Why did you slander Worperfect like that? What did

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 7:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Bob, Wordperfect is still alive and well, I have the 2021 Standard version installed on all my home machines. My wife won't use anything else because of that most excellent "r

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Bob Bridges
I thought about RTF. It is a markup language, after all, and I was recently able to write a REXX program that converts plain text to RTF with formatting including lots of fonts and a two-column layout (the error-message part of a friend's product manual). I may still attempt that. But I have

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Bob Bridges
My employer of 14 years used WP for years. Every new version came to my desk first; I'd install it, sweat and struggle with its bugs, work with their support people, and after a while tell my boss "Ok, it's ready for distribution" and we'd put the new version out on the users' desks. One year I

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Mike Schwab
I used to save my documents in Rich Text Format .RTF. All the markup codes are stored in text (notepad) and several editors that use it. On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 5:38 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > > I got quite a few nominations from the two forums where I posted this > question, and it's early days

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Farley, Peter
Shmuel, Why did you slander Worperfect like that? What did it ever do to you? Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 8:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages My preference

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Farley, Peter
al Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 3:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Which is exactly the complaint I have when trying to add to my document using Word. But enough people have symp

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Bob Bridges
I got quite a few nominations from the two forums where I posted this question, and it's early days to say I've settled on one, but currently I'm looking hard at LaTeX. I found a tutorial on it at javatpoint.com, but that was written by a non-native-English writer (maybe he a Slav?, guessing by

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 22:11, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Alas, KEDIT is missing important functionality. Yes, but for those of us without your favourite, what else is there? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
Alas, KEDIT is missing important functionality. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 4:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 21:23, Seymour J

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 09:51:58AM -0500, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > Fair comments. In my travels I’ve not seen anyone use Libre Office > or LaTeX; I’m not knocking them but if they are not widely used who > will maintain the doc later when we all retire? When considering > authoring docs like

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 21:23, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Waterloo Script will work just fine with TSO. > > If only VM/SP were public domain I'd suggest XEDIT as a reason to learn VM. I use Kedit these days on my home (which is the only place I ever am) PCs. I did use Xedit for 3 years, back in

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 20:58, Bob Bridges wrote: > But long ago > I took up the habit of teaching each new PC to default to WordPad for .rtf > documents, and that's what I use to write one- or two-page documentation on > simple commands and utilities. It's a while since I last used Wordpad, but

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 20:20, Phil Smith III wrote: > Jeremy-you realize that PostScript is about as far as you can get from > markup in a lot of ways, right? It's fun stuff but not what people generally > mean when they say "markup". Just sayin'. Good point! When I used DCF, I wrote a lot of

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
(Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 3:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Gibney, Dave
December 22, 2022 12:58 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Markup languages > > ...But maybe I will anyway, to this extent: With each new PC I shell out > real money for a copy of the real MS Office, including Access. But long ago > I took up the habit of t

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Bob Bridges
Which is exactly the complaint I have when trying to add to my document using Word. But enough people have sympathized with me over Word's shortcomings that I guess I needn't belabour the point. ...But maybe I will anyway, to this extent: With each new PC I shell out real money for a copy of

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Bob Bridges
I pay a great deal of attention to the question "who's going to maintain it after I'm gone?", when I'm coding; it's for that reason that I stick to VBS and VBA when writing tools for my clients in MS Office, and why I resisted the temptation for years before finally breaking down and getting

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Phil Smith III
Shmuel wrote: >Oddly enough, one of the reasons that I use markup languages is that >the documents are easy to maintain; adding text doesn't break formatting. I don't find this odd at all! I miss markup, especially for books. Trying to do consistency checks in FrameMaker or *shudder* Word is

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 17:36, David Spiegel wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > CBT Files 280-287 (cbttape.org) Thank-you! At last, a compelling reason to install Hercules and some ancient version of VM (not used that for real since 1985 or so, though), or - since I see the CBT tapes mention a TSO command

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread John McKown
I use LibreOffice on my home system. But only if I must interact with work. Normally, I use RDP into my work desktop and use the stuff on it. On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 8:52 AM Matt Hogstrom wrote: > Fair comments. In my travels I’ve not seen anyone use Libre Office or > LaTeX; I’m not knocking

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Matt Hogstrom [m...@hogstrom.org] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 9:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Fair comments. In my travels I’ve not seen anyone use Libre Office or LaTeX; I’m not knocking them but if they are not widely used who

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of René Jansen [rene.vincent.jan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 2:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages I have produced documents for years with xelatex and (lately) luatex (because, imho, those are the only solution

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Rupert Reynolds [rreyno...@cix.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 11:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages I've been meaning to learn

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gord Tomlin [gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages On 2022-12-21 20:01 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > If you’re looking for something that is good for mar

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread René Jansen
I have produced documents for years with xelatex and (lately) luatex (because, imho, those are the only solution that gives typographical freedom, and predictable, constant page layout, and optimal quality. I am keeping that setup probably forever, but am moving to Markdown and pandoc

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 12:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Rupert Reynolds
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, 16:47 Rupert Reynolds, wrote: > I've been meaning to learn LaTex for years, but it looks very different > from other markups. I'm off to find a beginners' course now :-) > > And so the first hurdle is passed--install package 'texlive' on Linux and 'pdflatex' command just

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Jeremy, CBT Files 280-287 (cbttape.org) Regards, David On 2022-12-22 12:24, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 00:38, Thomas Kern wrote: I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began writing Data Center Operation manuals using it. Is an executable for it

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Thomas Kern
The last copy I had was written in S/370 Assembler language and executable in a VM/CMS (R6 through z/VM R5) environment. For actual editing of document type files, I now use LibreOffice on Linux and Windows desktops. I don't have to pay for it and I can save as MS-formats to share with

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 00:38, Thomas Kern wrote: > I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began > writing Data Center Operation manuals using it. Is an executable for it available anywhere? If so, for what platform? Is the source available? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2022-12-21 20:01 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: If you’re looking for something that is good for markup then Markdown is widely used. Markdown is great for its simplicity, and the fact that it's all character based makes it easy to manage revisions under git. It can be challenging to produce a

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Rupert Reynolds
I've been meaning to learn LaTex for years, but it looks very different from other markups. I'm off to find a beginners' course now :-) LibreOffice has the advantage of using an open standard, and being able to save in various M$ formats, and html. Libre is sometimes used to recover broken M$

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Fair comments. In my travels I’ve not seen anyone use Libre Office or LaTeX; I’m not knocking them but if they are not widely used who will maintain the doc later when we all retire? When considering authoring docs like programs we need to consider the downstream consumers / maintainers so

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread John McKown
I use LyX also. But I don't do much documenting. "The source IS the documentation." On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 17:54 Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I like LyX for this kind of thing. Perhaps because I'm too lazy to learn > LaTeX or TeX. > > Tom Marchant > >

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
...@atsmigrations.com] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 7:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Did RUNOFF ever make it mainframe ? Whatever we do, don't mention that GML and HTML are cousins... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
My preference, alas, is dead: BookMagager BUILD/MVS (or VM), which is built on BookMaster and DCF. Lacking that, I make do with LaTeX, which I find powerful but clumsier that the tools built on Script. I make extensive use of nested bulleted and numbered lists, and when I attempt to copy an

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mark Jacobs [0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 7:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages I use LaTeX

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Matt Hogstrom [m...@hogstrom.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 8:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages If you’re looking for something that is good for markup then Markdown is widely used. If your looking for a tool to edit

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
Did RUNOFF ever make it mainframe ? Whatever we do, don't mention that GML and HTML are cousins... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Rupert Reynolds [rreyno...@cix.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 7:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages I've just been playing with Visual Studio Code with the Markdown All-in-One extension. Almost the first thing I

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Rupert Reynolds
I've just been playing with Visual Studio Code with the Markdown All-in-One extension. Almost the first thing I read is that different .md viewers behave differently--to my mind the same problem as the downside of HTML. And I'm not convinced about significant white space (sp-sp-crlf) to get a

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-21 Thread Matt Hogstrom
If you’re looking for something that is good for markup then Markdown is widely used. If your looking for a tool to edit in and manage the outlining of documents, promotion of headings and tracking of footnotes then I will prefer Word but Google Docs is amazing and free. Matt Hogstrom

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-21 Thread Thomas Kern
Showing my age... I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began writing Data Center Operation manuals using it. I even wrote a Resignation Memo with it. For a while, I did have a 1600 BPI tape with both WSCRIPT and my 'resign script a0' file. Later I found that 2

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-21 Thread Mark Jacobs
I use LaTeX myself, but you might want to take a look at Markdown. https://www.markdownguide.org/ Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com --- Original Message --- On

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-21 Thread Tom Marchant
I like LyX for this kind of thing. Perhaps because I'm too lazy to learn LaTeX or TeX. Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: