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Yet another markup system

I’m finally learning TeX. (Four days ahead of my lab students, I think; I’ll be teaching it on Monday.)

I am losing track of the various methods I’ve learned, over my lifetime, for marking up plain text so it can be displayed in neatly-formatted ways for reading. There’s all the various word processors (three that I can think of,) then HTML in its various iterations, Markdown, POD (which I only picked up a few weeks ago), and now TeX.

At least I never got to manually editing PostScript.

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Posted by pjm on September 7, 2006 10:36 PM |

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At least I never got to manually editing PostScript.

Been there. Not fun.

Posted by: Chris Hughes | September 8, 2006 9:23 AM

I used to manually edit Postscript. Had to do it in order to incorporate Postscript illustrations in troff documents (oh no! another markup language!) I had both the red and blue books on my desk for years, and even manually created some computation-based Postscript drawings just for the heck of it.

Posted by: ralph | September 8, 2006 5:23 PM

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