[Alan Kennedy] >>So, I'm hoping that the learned folks here might be able to give me >>some pointers to a markup language that has the following >>characteristics
[Paul Rubin] > I'm a bit biased but I've been using Texinfo for a long time and have > been happy with it. It's reasonably lightweight to implement, fairly > intuitive to use, and doesn't get in the way too much when you're > writing. There are several implementations, none in Python at the > moment but that would be simple enough. It does all the content > semantics you're asking (footnotes etc). It doesn't have an explicit > object model, but is straightforward to convert into a number of > formats including high-quality printed docs (TeX); the original Info > hypertext browser that predates the web; and these days HTML.
Thanks Paul,
I took a look at texinfo, and it looks powerful and good ....... for programmers.
Looks like a very steep learning curve for non-programmers though. It seems to require just a few hundred kilobytes too much documentation ......
regards,
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