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Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-02 03:28:16
On 09-07-02 1:00 AM, "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn(_at_)mindspring(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

One of the advantages of nroff input is that it *is* human readable.  (To me
it seems much easier to read than HTML, but that's not the issue here.)
To generate formatted output (in a variety of possible formats) the freely-
available groff program works well.

Yes, and that is what I used for many many years until I got tired of saving
to a temporary files and to use command line in endless iterations until I
got all page breaks and other formatting exactly as I wanted them.

I always wanted a tool where I could have the .nroff version and the text
version in two parallel windows, to immediately see the effect of any
changes in .nroff, hence I wrote my own. Mostly for the fun of it. But the
more I use that feature, the more I learned to like it end depend on it.

/Stefan


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