Favourite text based word processing software - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 2014

Ian King <isking at uw.edu> suggested:
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  For low resource AND cognitive overhead, how about
using either LaTeX or
 HTML tagging, which could then be interpreted in a simple mapping table
 for
 a given printer?  By not implementing all of the bells and whistles of
 either syntax, one could create something that's lightweight and
 sufficiently expressive. 
Or how about MarkDown?  A combination of this (for in-line emphasis or font
changes) and perhaps some beginning-of-line dot-commands (like runoff, and
also in WordStar) would likely be adequately expressive (I've done entire
reference manuals using only MarkDown), easy to implement, and easy to parse
for formatted output (printed, HTML, or whatever).
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Mark Moulding