On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > Yea, I think laying out a book with something like MS Word or > LibreOffice is nuts. Depending on her formatting needs, a > lighter-weight mark-up language (something like asciidoc) might suite: > > http://asciidoc.org/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc > > I've used it to write a 150 page manual, and was quite happy with the > results. It produces DocBook XML, PDF, HTML and a few other output > formats (Including, I think, LibreOffice/OpenOffice). It's _much_ > easier to get started with than LaTeX. For printing purposes the > quality of the output is no match for TeX -- but it's better than a > "word processor", and it does a very nice job with HTML output.
Hmm. Might be useful in some other places. I'm currently trying to push for a web site design that involves docutils/reStructuredText, but am flexible on the exact markup system used. My main goal, though, is to separate content from structure and style - and my secondary goal is to have everything done as plain text files (apart from actual images), so the source control diffs are useful :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
