gregs@well.sf.ca.us (Greg Strockbine) (09/06/90)
Anybody have an opinion about these? i work on a unix system, but company policy is to use Microsoft Word for doucmentation. I used to use nroff/troff and pipe it thru Adobe's ptroff to get postscript output. The markup languages can be a bear to learn. Word has its learning curve too. It does make table of contents and an index pretty easy though. My regret is that I have no online documentation on the unix system since I have to go to the pc and fire up word. I got use to Emacs's hypertext, and think its pretty neat to have one file that can be processed in two different ways: hard copy or online hypertext. But if I mention markup language most people here just groan. Are they really that bad? I was doing a fairly big document with Word, and used Word's feature of include files. Then I decided that I had to change a name in a bunch of those include files. So I fired up MKS's sed and went to it. Then when I fired up Word most of the formatting had disappeared! Are the markup languages out of date? Are pc word processors just for secretaries? greg strockbine