Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Yon
he syntax and semantics simpler and more pleasant to use. But I'm not sure I would recommend such non standard use. Yon

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Yon
nd no-warnings “every text file accepted” permissive kind of syntax - would have made it unsuitable for maintaining long works. Yon

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-06 Thread Yon
proaching what mandoc(1) is for documentation. LaTeX and groff are good, but not semantic enough (making non-PDF exports tricky), have a quite fragile syntax at times and, in my experience, are not great at error reporting - which may be because of current tools instead of the languages themselves, though. Yon

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-06 Thread Yon
That said, if your books are too technical, you may end up needing to extend yourself the language too much. Or maybe you'll hit some unexpected limitations that will probably not disappear with time, as the language is feature complete for its main intended usage. Yon