There are some tools on www.snake.net/software which can convert troff2rtf and rtf2troff.
I hope they work for the groff too, may be i can use it ? any suggestions ? Thanks, Srini Meg McRoberts wrote: > > My current job requires writing long, highly-technical documents in > Word and it is absolutely HORRID! I totally agree with you! > > I've seen editors for HTML and XML where you have two windows, one > that contains the raw source and one that contains a reasonably-accurate > rendition of the formatted text. You can edit in either pane and the > results are displayed to the other. This seems like a reasonable > compromise between people who prefer the raw text format (like most > of us on this list) and those who prefer the WYSIWYG approach. > > --- Nick Stoughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Groff-editor.-tf4286748.html#a12256312 Sent from the Groff - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
