Re: [dev] Suckless word processing solution?

Just FYI, p9p's troff does UTF-8 quite well too: http://plan9.us

Peace

uriel

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:00 PM, markus schnalke <meillo_AT_marmaro.de> wrote:
> [2009-09-22 18:39] Илья Илембитов <ilembitov_AT_yandex.ru>
>>
>> I am looking for a lightweight solution to create rich formatted content in any
>> MS Word-editable format
>
>> Heirloom project might be nice (at least, it is said to support UTF-8 and
>> modern fonts), but again it is unclear as to which documentation should I use.
>
> I started using heirloom troff now and I am quite happy with it. It
> *does* support UTF-8 and modern fonts.
>
> Heirloom doctools do ship an updated troff manual which is a good
> reference. The central place for documentation is [0].
>
> [0] http://troff.org
>
> But you are right when you miss easy user-level documenation, this
> is rare in fact. However, I haven't had much problem becoming familiar
> with troff and friends (supported by my Latex knowledge).
>
>
>> Besides, the project wasn't updated since April 2008.
>
> Is that a problem? IMO this isn't long ago for software which is
> matured.
>
>
> I read in another mail that you need the Word-editable output for
> proof-readers or someone similar. Is there plain-text sufficient?
> Because then you could simply generate output with nroff. (I suppose
> Word can deal with plain-text files.)
>
> If not -- if the output have to contain formatations, images, etc --
> then you will not become happy with troff, I'm afraid. But I don't
> know about about troff2whatever converters.
>
>
> btw: You say, it's for scientific papers ... I wonder: don't they use
> Latex for them? It's so common in this field of action.
>
>
> meillo
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