I looked through the archives -- looks like I couldn't guess the right search terms { sigh, story of my life }.

It sounds like LaTex might be the "easiest" option. If you're not doing anything too crazy LaTex isn't *too* bad. And if I pound on it hard enough I can get Perl-constructs that really do hide the strangeness.

NB: I did this kind of thing for HTML years and years ago {this long before the advent of AJAX and all the super-fancy cgi packages}. Part of my job was writing CGI programs and I put together a little meta-package to make things easier {and the HTML less broken} I don't remember quite what I had done back-then any more, but it was handy things like italic(text) button(label, what to do), etc.

I was mostly asking in general - e.g., I have a .txt file that is, basically, a long table. I was thinking it'd be nice if I could have it be nicer to read/use version but still have a simple/flat txt file that I can easily edit. I wondered if there was some XML stuff that might do that. As I said, I think that LaTex is probably the easiest path -- it is even worse than Word in terms of idiosyncrasies, but can easily figure it out and then I can have a simple source file and let Perl just handle making it LaTeX friendly.

In reply to Re^2: producing fancy text by BernieC
in thread producing fancy text by BernieC

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