[DG: Open Forum] Favorite Markup Language

[Nate Angell]

What about something like Lyx?
http://www.lyx.org/

- Nate

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Ray Davis <ray at media.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I stick to very vanilla HTML (with CSS as needed) as much as possible,
> but then my main publishing venue has been the web for a *long* time now
> -- my steadiest writing gigs in the '90s were online magazines, and I
> began blogging in summer of '99. But yeah, it's a pain when I have to
> move big chunks of text to and from RTF or PDF -- every automated helper
> I know injects way too much "intelligence".
>
> My favorite of the alternatives is Textile, mostly because it's the
> least verbose for basic formatting. If the idea is to speed up my
> typing, then I really do want it to be fast. It helps that there's a lot
> of overlap with Confluence markup.
>
> Best,
> Ray
>
> On 4/26/10 10:42 AM, Steven Githens wrote:
>> Sometimes I don't mind writing HTML for simple docs ( I used to use
>> docbook, and that was way more painful ).  But I suppose HTML can mean a
>> lot of things.  If you were going to roll a set of documentation with
>> just HTML what stack of tools would you use?  I think the usage of even
>> more than a couple HTML editors would mangle the documents with their
>> own conventions.
>>
>> Usually, if you use Markdown or Restructured Text, in addition to the
>> syntax it brings along the toolchain ( for example using Sphinx with
>> Restructured Text ).  So I guess, it's a core markup plus a set of nice
>> tools to make tables of contents and stuff too, although for this use
>> case I was imagining a text editor being the authoring tool across the
>> examples.
>>
>> -s
>>
>>
>> Nate Angell wrote:
>>> I like this markup syntax called "HTML"...it's pretty widely used and
>>> there are some tools out there to help you use it.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nate Angell
>>> Client Evangelist
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Steven Githens<swgithen at mtu.edu>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Just curious what you're favorite markup/wiki/formatting syntax is.
>>>> Markdown? Creole? Restructured Text? LaTeX?  Something else?  The
>>>> context here is mostly for writing instructions and technical
>>>> documentation for open source software.
>>>>
>>>> I've been using Restructured Text for my personal projects, and am
>>>> thinking about switching to Markdown or something similar.
>>>>
>>>> DISCUSS!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Steve
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