On Sat, 14 May 2022 11:21:32 +0930 Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 07:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I'd briefly looked at LaTex, decided it was more pain that is worth > for *me* to learn, but lots of people provide that same advice. > Having been down the road, before, of using proprietary word proc doc > formats that couldn't be used elsewhere, I see the value of well > defined and universal document formats. And it is a format that > print publishers could handle, if your documents were heading that > way. Try markdown if LaTeX is too complicated. Markdown is a simple, text-based markup language that can be automatically converted to other formats, including HTML, LaTeX, PDF, and MS Word. It is amenable to version control since it is text-base; it is the preferred documentation format for GitHub and GitLab. Markdown syntax is simple enough for a person to read and write after quick introduction. I have been using LaTeX for decades and have designed several document classes. Markdown is better for most of my documents, unless I need a publication quality PDF with advance formatting. I don’t grok word processors. Plain text is just as good for simple documents and WYSIWYG interferes with complicated formatting. Many of the Word files I get from my colleagues are a mess. Jim P.S. This e-mail is an example of markdown. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
