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Re: Too many tools, was Things that used to be clear

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Sat, 13 July 2019 14:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: Too many tools, was Things that used to be clear
From: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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> On Jul 13, 2019, at 7:41 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> On Jul 13, 2019, at 16:34, Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Besides, I’m only suggesting that use of .docx files be supported as authoring tools; the output can still be XML.
>> 
> 
> But that’s easy — use MS-Word to edit markdown and then process that.
> 
> Maybe you do have something different in mind…

Yeah - something where the headings in Word turn into XML headings, etc. It looks like Phillip’s system might achieve the output conversion I’m looking for, but we may benefit from a .dotx template that shows better how to use it...

FWIW, I haven’t edited source code for documents since 1987 (Scribe, when at the SEI), and I don’t really understand why anyone does.

Joe

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