Re: Compiling text files
By: MRO to Boondock on Mon Jun 07 2021 13:30:09
MR> i wouldnt use a txt to exe program
<shrug> You do you.
Why this came up for me is that there was a pretty remote village in the DRC whe
re a collegue was working for an NGO/UN on De-mining and IDP issues.
The local chieftan has an old PC, a 286 actually, that is his pride and joy. The
issue was when he was provided with the various bits of documentation and infor
mation he was supposed to use in support of the issues there, he smugly insisted
that *his* computer couldn't use any of this modern stuff. He further insisted
that it wasn't is computer at fault, but that of the arrogant foreigners trying
to tell him what to do. He insisted that if we couldn't give him the information
in a format that he could read on his computer, in a friendly and easy way, the
n it was the foreigner's fault and not his.
My mate sent me a frantic message asking for help. He sent me the info in French
, English and Swahili, and I worked on it for about six hours before sending him
back a single .EXE file which he could put onto a disk for the chief, who was g
obsmacked when he ran it and it displayed perfectly, in colour, in a series of c
ascading windows. THAT'S what prompted my question; a real-world situation that
is not that unusual once you are a few meters off the beaten path.
In subsequent discussions, we decided to look around to see if there was a more
modern equivelant that would hopefully work cross platform.
We're looking to see if we can find something, hopefully that will accept someth
ing convertable by Pandoc, and preferably something that takes MarkDown as input
(even if it needs a few extensions.
Got any useful suggestions?
JD
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