Recommendations for typesetting language
Hi,
I would like to select a typesetting language in which to type up my notes. I have several criteria and would like recommendations for people familiar with such languages. (examples of typesetting language may mean LaTeX, reStructured text, orgmode files in Emacs, Perl .pod files etc.)
I have only given a few examples of possible formats, but welcome any examples. |
An oldie but a goodie: troff (with the memorandum macros) -- also known as groff, the GNU roff type-setting system.
It's text typed with a text editor (you can read it). You don't even have to include macros, simply leave a blank line to start a new paragraph. You can do all the things you do with a word processor; tables, lists, graphs, table of contents, you name it. The manual pages in Linux are (mostly) done with the "man" macros for nroff/troff; e.g., Code:
gunzip -c /usr/man/man1/troff.1.gz | pg (or more or less) You can "pretty print" manual pages with Code:
man -t troff | gv - The output of troff is PostScript (the output of nroff is text for a terminal). And, as you probably know, PostScript is the language of typesetters. And, if you've got PostScript, PDF is child's play. Personally, I've done some... quite large, say, documents this way (couple of hundred pages). Frankly, I fell that word processors are a pain in the hiney and prefer to "just type the thing" and add some formatting directions as I go. You mileage, of course, may vary. You might like it, you might hate it but it's still worth a look-see. Hope this helps some. |
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