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Re:Book design inspired by Edward Tufte by zzleeper on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @10:12PM (#8628013)
Looks interesting. A few questions/comments: - In what language did you wrote the backend? In particular how do you create the bars/tables? - Wouldn't it be better to just call it something like "Forestpin Flavored Markdown"? From what I get you basically add some extra syntax (like itallics) and extensions (sidenotes) - Regarding the sidenotes, it may be hard to get the syntax. What if you detach it from the location where its mentioned like you do for footnotes?

Anyways, looks pretty cool!

Re:Book design inspired by Edward Tufte by vpj on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:53AM (#8628477)
Thanks!. It's written in Coffeescript. I didn't think much about the name when we started this. Didn't want to call it markdown because we didn't want to make it compatible with standard markdown, especially because of indentations. Will probably change the name in the future.