Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On Apr 8, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Grahame Blackwood wrote:

> I am not a programmer but do most of my written work with Vim, aided and
> abetted by other software to produce good looking documents, even if
> they are only reports or letters.
>
> For reports and longer texts, my use is similar to Anthony's with the
> variation that I use VimOutliner for organising my text first, then
> import it into Lyx with the otl2lyx.awk script (part of the VimOutliner
> package) to preserve the structure of my outline. After that, when I
> need to further edit the text in the Lyx document, I often do so by
> opening the file with Vim and edit body text only (don't want to corrupt
> the Lyx document) and making certain that I don't hit the CR while doing
> so. Then I save the file and in Lyx I Reload it and compile the document
> as needed.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Grahame.

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net

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