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Originally Posted by jandrew
As you investigate your plain text workflow, consider looking into markdown and pandoc:
http://box.matto.nl/markdown.html
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
There are a couple android editors that have some markdown support JotterPad X (markdown), LightPaper Pro (multimarkdown). Or, if you are comfortable writing LaTeX code without LyX, pandoc supports that as both input and output formats.
cheers,
andrew |
Thank you for the suggestion.
I've looked at various markup languages in the past. That typesetting company that I worked for used a couple of different systems, for example. One was proprietary that drove both their proof ready printers and their final print ready cameras. The other was SGML. I dabbled a bit in the latter. I've also messed around a fair amount with HTML, man page editing, and even a bit of LaTeX.
The problem that I kept running into over and over was that having to think about adding the markup in a document took me away from concentrating on the writing itself. I'm also a fairly slow typist (30-40 wpm) and still manage to make a fair number of errors unless I concentrate on key positioning. That tends to slow me down even more when adding markup.
For those reasions, I decided that I needed a decent GUI if I were to include presentation instructions in a document. I eventually ended up with LyX after trying MS Office, OpenOffice, an old KDE specific editor whose name escapes me now, and a couple of others. LyX was simply better at just getting out of the way and letting me concentrate on writing than any of the WYSIWYG editors.
I took a quick look at both markdown and pandoc as I went through this thread. I don't think that either one will really solve my core issues with including markup in my text. I would far rather just write, then figure out how to assign styles to the text after the fact.
(shrug) My way of tackling it after the fact will certainly add some additional work. OTOH, I do find it easier to focus on the actual content writing my way. Hopefully, that will help offset the loss in productivity when it comes time to begin the massaging for publication.
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Come to think of it, I suppose that I could use sed or something similar to assign one or more default paragraph formats as part of a batch job process. That would help speed up the process enormously. And if I used markdown or pandoc, can I use either one as an import to LyX? Hmmm... I think I've got some research to do.