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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by cjsuk on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:37AM (#15291297)
It's really fine for casual documentation. I wouldn't write a book or a paper in it though.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:13AM (#15293333)
For a straight-text book, actually, Markdown is excellent. You can include images, or for technical content, tables, easily.

Technical papers with formulae and complex references are slightly more detailed, but that ends up being gloss. Even LaTeX for a simple text is quite minimal (though you need the starting template).

Source: I've made something of a hobby of marking up source docs into HTML, LaTeX, and Markdown. Of the set, Markdown would be my first go-to, and I've used it for some book-length projects.

Example here: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lhw2eq4qmnnwxijlcrfyba

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by snakeanus on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:47AM (#15295064)
> For a straight-text book, actually, Markdown is excellent. You can include images, or for technical content, tables, easily.

I would probably use org-mode for that.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:10PM (#15295369)
Another solid option, yes.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by gaius on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:35AM (#15291529)
R Markdown is a joy to use and people even do write books with it!
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