Re: [MacPerl] OT emacs & TeX/LaTeX

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 05.54 -0500 1999.02.01, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>Speaking ofdocs, it caught my eye over the weekend also that the Perl
>Cookbook was written in pod, of all things (translated to troff for review
>printing, to Framemaker for final proofs). And one author used vi, the
>other emacs.

Tom Christiansen is a big vi nut.  And he helped develop a special
translator called pod2ora which converts pod to the format that O'Reilly
uses for its printing.  It was also really nice when reviewing the
cookbook, as they could distribute the documents in pod and HTML (running
it through pod2html), which everyone can read.

Better than other documents I got from O'Reilly recently which were in --
gack -- Word 97 format.  I wrote a CGI at work that accepts file uploads of
Word 97 documents and runs them through the Unix program mswordview and
redirects the browser to the finished product.  Not perfect output, but
better than bowing to the God of Redomond.  :)

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