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From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@327.ca>
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Subject: Advice needed: simple markup packages for XEmacs
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 15:06:00 -0700
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I am looking for a good way to produce manuscripts for submission to 
publishers. My requirements are very simple:

         12pt. courier
         double-spaced
         1" margins 
         header with page number
         output to postscript
         no hyphenation
         no left/right page orientation
         no widow/orphan control
         no graphics, equations
         no indexing
         no character formatting

There's a bit more, but you probably get the idea. 

I'd like to use XEmacs to edit the manuscript. WYSIWYG is not an issue and 
although I'm a humble amateur, I've used XEmacs for years and really like 
its editing power.

Given that my requirements will probably never change, I've been looking at 
a couple of markup approaches: groff and LaTeX.

1. Are there others I should consider? I'm not looking for packages that 
aren't widely used and likely to be around for a millenia or two. ;-)

2. Any groff vs. LaTeX observations on the ease of doing this kind of 
markup?

Thanks.

M.
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Michael O'Henly

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