> The thing is I hate document processors. I really do. I love > vim. I really really do.
Ditto :) > But "they" want a .doc file. With italics, bold, red for the > code and green for page count. To get this from plain-text, you need _some_ sort of text markup (he types, using underscores to mark up the sentence). There are literally hundreds if not thousands of markup languages, and you can even produce your own fairly easy (one of the main contributing factors to the large numbers). Choices include RTF, HTML, Markdown, DocBook, LaTeX...the list goes on and on. > I tried editing with vim and then opening with open office > writer coloring, italizing, bolding and saving to .doc. But it > is painful! To much mouse work... select the text go press the > stupid B or I button or go press font color and then red or > green. Painful. I want to use my keybord and only my keyboard. > As an aside, in most word-processors, you should be able to select by holding down <shift> while using motion keys (arrows, control+arrows, home, end, pgup/pgdn, etc). You can then use control+B to get bold, control+I to get italics. Colors, not usually as readily available. But that's 2/3 of a solution. :) > So here is what I thought. I will edit an html document, open > it with oowriter and save to .doc. > > And here is the question: > > Is there an even easier way to do this using my vim? Choose some markup that's easy for you, and then post-process it to tweak it to be valid HTML. I happen to think fairly natively in basic HTML (wrote most of my college papers in HTML using a text-editor and then printed from the library for free instead of the $0.07/pg in the labs; darn javascript end-note library I wrote from scratch :), so I just started there. HTML has good control for styling and doing things like code-blocks, or defining <div>/<span> elements for page-counts. However, your markup can be as simple as <code> here's some code </code> @42@ which you can then post-process to HTML (bound in a script/keystroke to save your sanity) :%s/@\(\d\+\)@/<span class='page'>\1<\/span>/g Vim has fairly strong support for HTML so I know that's pretty easy. You don't mention what's getting italicized, bolded, or made red, so I'm not sure if there's a better/worse way to mark those up. If you're willing to put up with RTF markup, you can do this natively in Vim and just open the resulting file directly in Word or WordPad (most users see the idiot-icon for Word and don't care that it's an RTF file instead of .DOC as long as it opens in Word). I think OO.o does .rtf as well (when forced to use a document processor, I tend to use AbiWord because it's a bit more light-weight on my old machine here). Hope this gives you some ideas, -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
