Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a simple text formatting language/package?
>
> To explain a bit more: I want a formatting language that's text based
> (so it's easier to keep track of diffs in source control, and editable
> in vim), for doing stuff you'd usually do in Open Office Word Processor
> - bullet points, bold/italic, tables, etc. I'd like output in pdf, so
> it's easily printable cross-platform.
Have a look at REST (ReStructured Tex). In particular, the following
package:
apt-get install python-docutils
Has commands rst2latex and rst2html.
Erik
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