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Re:Nota: A Document Language for the Browser by destedexplan on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:59AM (#31352700)
Would be nice to think about how it compares to something like Pandoc which -- as far as I can tell from the Tutorial -- has all the expressiveness Nota has without being tied down to a particular output stack.

Also Nota doesn't absolve you of having to learn React, JS, etc. which is fine. Lightweight markup often winds up being a DSL over some more powerful underlying stack. But the goal is to separate authoring from styling. I.e. at the authoring stage you don't need to specify how a sidenote or a definition list would be implemented. Nota seems to mix these up.

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Re:Nota: A Document Language for the Browser by wcrichton on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:54PM (#31358600)
AFAIK Pandoc doesn't really have a story for interaction. Like, "show a tooltip when someone clicks on this text". That's the main value add for Nota.

Nota doesn't require users to specify the implementations of things like footnotes. The goal is the user just says "@Footnote{content}" and the document renderer takes care of all the layout. And you can swap in different implementations of the Footnote component.

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