[ale] [OT] Document formatter?

[Kyle Brieden]

Since when has a tool being cumbersome or "not user friendly" stopped 
anyone on this list? /s

But seriously, though, that's a fair point.  Like I said, I use it for 
my resume and some other things that I don't touch often.  It's nice 
that when I do need to touch them, though, it's a simple edit in vim 
(not trying to start that war up again) and then a CLI command and I'm 
done.  I guess working day to day with it would be more cumbersome 
unless you use something like https://www.overleaf.com/ or 
https://www.sharelatex.com/

---
Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 02-04-2018 12:24, James Sumners wrote:
> LaTeX isn't a "multi-purpose" tool. LaTeX is for LaTeX. Pandoc can
> translate to/from LaTeX amongst many other formats. And Pandoc is
> *far* easier to setup and work with than LaTeX. Basically, if you're
> not typesetting a book or writing a mathematics paper, LaTeX is too
> cumbersome.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Kyle Brieden via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm a little surprised no one here has offered up LaTeX as a tool...
>> I write my resume in LaTeX and maintain a git repo for it.
>> 
>> ---
>> Very respectfully,
>> Kyle Brieden
>> 
>> On 02-04-2018 08:11, leam hall via Ale wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to learn multi-purpose tools. Right now I need
>>> something to
>>> document my Ruby code and to also take text based fiction and turn
>>> it
>>> into a pdf with bold headers and appropriate page breaks. As a
>>> last
>>> resort I can open the text doc in LibreOffice and save as a PDF.
>>> 
>>> A friend uses Doxygen for his project, I'm looking for some
>>> options.
>>> The goal is to be able to run it on the command line.
>>> 
>>> Suggestions?
>>> 
>>> Leam
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