Re: [Groff] Introduction

[Larry McVoy]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:18:36PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > Like all UNIX tools, the specialized ones are the most viable.  I
> > lament the day groff goes gui.  However, I think that a seperate gui
> > frontend is not a bad idea.
> 
> Hmm, on today's computer everything is so fast that the
> editor->groff->ps->ghostview cycle can be run amost constantly in the
> background, as Ted's and Larry's scripts do.

What I've sometimes imagined in a system where there is a menubar on a
text editor that is the markup menubar.  So you can ask for a paragraph
or a list or whatever and it puts the markup in the text.

Combine that with a split screen, rendered output at the top, source at
the bottom and you're 95% of the way there.
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