Thoughts on Markdown

Re:Thoughts on Markdown by sampo on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:51AM (#30414260)

> Latex is extremely powerful but reading the raw source of a text is a pain.

For the kind of text that you'd use Markdown for, i.e. text that is mostly just text and not math heavy, LaTeX should be almost as readable as Markdown. For example,

    \section{Introduction}

is almost as readable as

    ## Introduction

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Re:Thoughts on Markdown by periheli0n on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:39AM (#30414640)

Yes, almost ;)

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Re:Thoughts on Markdown by gilcot on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:09PM (#30434593)

Plus, you can have nice stuffs like:

    \section[short title in toc]{very very long title at page}

and stared version. Those two things, Markdown cannot do, show the power of that syntax ovec simple bangs starting the line.

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Re:Thoughts on Markdown by Lio on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:00AM (#30416566)

Takes a bit more typing though unless you some macros dedicated to it.

Not hard to do but Markdown is easy to write anywhere.

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