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.