[Groff] RE: Groff editor.

[karee]

There are some tools on www.snake.net/software which can convert troff2rtf
and rtf2troff.

I hope they work for the groff too, may be i can use it ? any suggestions ?

Thanks,
Srini 


Meg McRoberts wrote:
> 
> My current job requires writing long, highly-technical documents in
> Word and it is absolutely HORRID!  I totally agree with you!
> 
> I've seen editors for HTML and XML where you have two windows, one
> that contains the raw source and one that contains a reasonably-accurate
> rendition of the formatted text.  You can edit in either pane and the
> results are displayed to the other.  This seems like a reasonable
> compromise between people who prefer the raw text format (like most
> of us on this list) and those who prefer the WYSIWYG approach.
> 
> --- Nick Stoughton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:11 -0400, Karee, Srinivas wrote:
>> > Basically I cannot lose bold/italic/font and other stuff.
>> 
>> The issue here for me is about the "meta-information". I have a 4,000
>> page document that describes programming APIs. The fact that a function
>> name is in italics with () after it is of much less importance to me
>> than the fact that I'm talking about a function here, which is something
>> that will appear in the index, etc etc. And when I describe a symbolic
>> constant, it comes out in ALL CAPS and in Courier-Roman font, but as far
>> as I'm concerned, I'm just describing a constant. I don't care what it
>> looks like until the very last moment when it gets rendered for the
>> reader.
>> 
>> This is one of the things I hate about WYSIWYG editors ... it is all
>> about the rendering, and not about the content.
>> 
>> Both groff and docbook-XML give me this level of abstraction when I'm
>> dealing with the source of a document. Word does not. 
>> 
>> So, my real question, I guess, is do you care only about the
>> bold/italic/font information, or do you care about the meaning (and
>> possible other side effects, such as indexing)  behind the font?
>> -- 
>> Nick Stoughton <address@hidden>
>> USENIX
>> 
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