in reply to Re: HTML documentation system - design and planning
in thread HTML documentation system - design and planning

Actually, I've used (regular) TEX for documentation long ago. I'm aware at how powerful a separate formatting pass, as opposed to WYSIWYG, can be. The obverse side of WYSIWYG is What You See Is All You Got.

I got a LaTeX book once, but didn't care for it.

Once upon a time, I decided I'd rather have copious documentation rather than beautiful documentation, and used Word for the project. It's just so much easier to create and edit, esp. if inserting illustrations and such.

  • Comment on Re: Re: HTML documentation system - design and planning

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Re: HTML documentation system - design and planning
by Hanamaki (Chaplain) on Sep 09, 2001 at 18:33 UTC
    Once upon a time, I decided I'd rather have copious documentation rather than beautiful documentation, and used Word for the project. It's just so much easier to create and edit, esp. if inserting illustrations and such.

    So maybe you should investigate tilly's hint on LyX further. With LyX you get some WYSIWYG and the power of LaTeX. Together with Ghostscript (ps2pdf), pdfTeX, html2latex, latex2html and latex2rtf you will get a powerfull typsetting environment which isn't that difficult to learn.
    But it is still TeX, meaning a typsetting language. I would rather use XML or some other logical markup and then convert it to LaTeX or whatever for typsetting on paper, as pdf or to produce rtf documents.

    Hanamaki
[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom