On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:27:39AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:29:37 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why do you use wiki markup if you're not writing to a wiki? > > > > That's what LaTex is for. > > > > You have a plain-text file with wiki markup. You want stuff bolded. > > Plain text doesn't have 'bold'. You'll need to turn it into a > > format that can then create a pdf or ps file. If you know how to > > write raw ps, great. Otherwise, I'd suggest you write a script to > > turn your wiki stuff into LaTex then run latex to make the dvi, then > > turn that into whatever you want. > > Yes I actually did consider using latex. Maybe I should have since I > use it for almost every other report or assignment I write. One of the > reasons I wanted to do this in wiki markup was that it was quite > simple to read in source format and I could post it to a wiki site > later on.
Normal LaTex is relatively easy to read. There's a package/script somewhere that will remove all markup from it to give you plain text. You may want to see if there's a script that will turn latex or dvi into wiki. If neither script exists, it shouldn't be hard to write in your script-lanuage-of-choice (or even something like Ada if you want it compiled). As always, start with the documentation and write the script to match. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
