On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 07:37:26 +0100 Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

Can anyone on this list recommend a good style guide for formatting technical documentation (HOWTOs related to CentOS servers) using ASCII text only ?

Lyx article and export the result as plain text?

That would kind of force a pretty robust format onto your document.

On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 01:38, Nicolas Kovacs info@microlinux.fr wrote:

Hi,

Can anyone on this list recommend a good style guide for formatting technical documentation (HOWTOs related to CentOS servers) using ASCII text only ?

Markdown and/or AsciiDOC are *not* an option, since these documents should be easily readable in a text console.

At this point, there isn't going to be a good style guide, because both of those formats are considered by various groups to be easy to read on a text console. [Same with Python RST and anything listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language ]. What I am meaning is that a lot of formatting comes down to the eye of the beholder and I have yet to find 12 people who agree on any layout as being pleasing. [Which was why at one job we had 4 nroff filters for a set of reports back even into the 2000's. Each one processed man pages and other documents into a format that meets various groups 'needs for proper documentation.'

In the end, I would say choose a layout language you need and work out a filter for pandoc or nroff or <fill in what you chose> to process it into what is aesthetically pleasing for your audience.

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki

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