Re: [PLUG] Open Source Equivalent of WordPerfect

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 03:17:03AM -0500, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> Markup languages are great for large documents (whose size means that they
> are often maintained by multiple people over long periods of time) and
> where you want to separate the content from the presentation. 

Markup languages are also great when:

	- some of the content is generated by programs (e.g., shell scripts)
	- some of the content needs to be processed by programs
	- documents are assembled by programs (e.g., makefiles)
	- revision control is required, in particular revision control
		which integrates with things other than documents
	- documents are maintained by sophisticated, clueful users
	- documents need to be searchable
	- documents need to be searchable *including their revisions*
	- documents need to be ported
	- documents need to be rendered in unanticipated ways
	- documents need to have a long lifetime

---rsk
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