On Thursday 29 May 2008 09:49:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
What he ment to say your honour sir, You can learn simple groff in 5 minutes You can do the utmost amazing stuff with groff, it's ideal for backing up, for comments, for version control, and it's trivially easy to use W Stevens did all the stuff for 'Unix Network Programming' upto camera ready pre-press with groff James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
