On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:11 -0400, Karee, Srinivas wrote: > Basically I cannot lose bold/italic/font and other stuff.
The issue here for me is about the "meta-information". I have a 4,000 page document that describes programming APIs. The fact that a function name is in italics with () after it is of much less importance to me than the fact that I'm talking about a function here, which is something that will appear in the index, etc etc. And when I describe a symbolic constant, it comes out in ALL CAPS and in Courier-Roman font, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm just describing a constant. I don't care what it looks like until the very last moment when it gets rendered for the reader. This is one of the things I hate about WYSIWYG editors ... it is all about the rendering, and not about the content. Both groff and docbook-XML give me this level of abstraction when I'm dealing with the source of a document. Word does not. So, my real question, I guess, is do you care only about the bold/italic/font information, or do you care about the meaning (and possible other side effects, such as indexing) behind the font? -- Nick Stoughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USENIX
