On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:27 +1000, 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. > > I've briefly thought about things like LaTeX, postscript and Docbook, > but they all seem overkill for what I want to do, and will take too much > time to learn.
If it is really simple stuff then go back in time to groff This is the way man pages are written. It is installed on most systems I would guess. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
