Re: [Groff] Hi, some newbie questions.

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:40:18PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005, Mike Parson wrote:
> > Back more on the topic of wishful thinking for GUI-ish groff editors:
> > 
> > I'd like to see something along the lines of the old WordPerfect
> > 'display codes' mode.  Split screen (80/20?), bottom few lines of
> > the editor show what you're editing with the embeded codes that
> > chanage what's going on, the main editing window would show you a
> > pseudo-formatted version, maybe what the text would look like when sent
> > through -Tascii.
> > 
> > And, of course, vi keybindings in the editor =)
> 
> What you describe is, for me, the absolute ideal for a "groff
> editor".  I've been putting forth this notion for years (more
> privately than publicly, though there are a few usenet and groff
> mailing list posts on the subject).

I've sort of started building a web version of this at 

http://www.bitmover.com/~lm/nifty/Welcome.Site.html

The idea is to have both the input and the formatted page available.
I've gotten sidetracked onto other things but this may happen yet.
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