[Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

[smallm at sdf.org (Mike Small)]

Theodore Ruegsegger <gruntly at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> [Rationale for separating document content from presentation, as embodied in Stylz]
>
> Isn't this the raison-d'etre for DocBook?
>
> Last I looked, that seemed to be working pretty well, though it was
> difficult to find tutorials that didn't lose me in short order.
>
> On the other hand, for the relatively simple documents I write from
> day to day, asciidoc is insanely easy to manage, and converts into
> TeX, HTML, PDF, or whatever with the flip of an option or two.
>
> How does Stylz differ from DocBook and its derivatives?
>
> This won't help the OP with her problem, but might be of interest to others.
>

I'm not up on this stuff, since everything I write now is without style
in every sense of the word, but some might find Inge Schwartze of
OpenBSD's opinions on this topic interesting. He's focused on the
problem of software documentation, but there's some overlap with what
you're discussing:

http://obsd.si/papers/eurobsdcon2014-mandoc-paper.pdf

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Mike Small
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