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.
Look at the following Wiki text markup.
Markdown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
RestructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
Textile: http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/
Pick one that you like the syntax of AND that has the features that you want.
Here is what I have found on their features:
Markdown RestructuredText Textile
tables? no, use HTML tags yes yes
can include divs? yes no yes
class/attributes? manual no yes
There are bindings for these to many languages such as Python, Perl etc.
Mike
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