document processing

[Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

I'm revisiting how I make documents.  I have been using lout since I
started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs:

	Difficult to change things like margins

	Can't make html

	plain text output has blank lines that must be edited.


My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects.  I
don't like wysiwyg.  I want to be able to make: ps, pdf, txt, html.

Something like DebianDoc seems overkill for a letter.

I want something that is simple, probably a markup language, but without
excessivly long tags or difficulty changing things like margins for
non-html output.

What do people find works well?

Thanks,

Doug.