Re:Dumbdown – A Tree Language that compiles to HTML
by n1000 on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:14AM
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Markdown remains the best hybrid for me, because it strikes the perfect balance between a. formal enough to use pandoc and make htmls, doxc, etc with it and
b. still fully human readable, which allows me to take all my meeting minutes with it and be able to quickly copy & paste them into an email or store them on our project share and nobody will really wonder.
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Re:Dumbdown – A Tree Language that compiles to HTML
by osrec on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:39AM
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I like markdown, but also like asciidoc for when you need your documents to be a bit smarter.
Re:Dumbdown – A Tree Language that compiles to HTML
by cmroanirgo on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:27PM
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I'm a bit of a fan of textile [0] and first came across the redcloth version[1] years ago, especially for non technical writing. In particular, it's closely aligned to the html that gets generated without all the angles. Eg. You can easily add class and/or id to a paragraph:
> Some text
p.red Some red text
It has easy to do left, centre and right alignments.
Markdown was (slightly) influenced by textile too [2]:
> While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters — including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText — the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
Too bad it's gone the way of the dodo [3].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)
[2] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
[3] https://github.blog/2016-03-01-upgrading-your-textile-posts-...