On 11/15/2014 9:54 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 08:44 15/11/2014 -0500, Virgil Arrington wrote:
What is needed is a simple system where a writer can write and edit
his content once, then press something like "F1" for print (PDF)
output and "F2" for screen (HTML) output and get excellent and
intended results with both.
And the way to achieve that, of course, is to move away from the
WYSIWYG presentation that software is so fond of and towards an
editing screen that shows instead the structure of the document.
Absolutely, Brian.
Unfortunately, there remain two different approaches to that concept.
For print output, nothing can beat LaTeX with a LyX frontend for easy
text input.
For screen output, there's HTML/CSS with MarkDown as the editor frontend.
Each system approaches structure differently with LaTeX having such tags
as \section{} and \textit{} and HTML having <h1> and <emph> with or #
or *emph* shorthand in MarkDown.
Now, if someone could devise a unified structure shorthand notation for
both excellent print and screen output so that a writer could write
without having to decide ahead of time where his work will end up, i.e.,
in print or on screen.
Virgil
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