I write plain text. I just happen to format it like markdown.
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Markdown...is...plaintext, though?
yup but with more tricks
Markdown is text that can kick flip
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you will change you mind yourself when your - key breaks from all the
--------------------------------------
HEADINGS
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ReST?
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I wouldn't dare try to understand the mind that thinks that Markdown is at all like html. 🤷♂️
They are both at the end of the day UTF-8 text.
All we are is bytes in the wind
Your mom is Unicode Text.
you know who else--
🤝
I mean, Markdown was specifically designed to be convertable to HTML. So, it is structurally rather similar. It's basically just a bunch of aliases for a subset of HTML tags.
Having said that, it is also designed to be plain text. You don't have to convert it, and even when you do convert it, there's a good chance that what you've written in plain text will look fine in converted Markdown as well.
For the purposes of this meme, I would certainly group it with plain text.
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Markdown would be better if everyone using it used the same markdown. I swear no two places use it the same.
true though
We could have had that, but when some people who might have succeeded tried to establish a proper standard for Markdown in 2014 the original inventor threw a tantrum so they backed down and it never went anywhere.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/
This upsets me.
LaTeX has entered the chat
kick him out.
Sorry, he already embed into all scientific paper.
Graphite pencil and paper is God
pointy stick and dirt clearing or gtfo
for real
All of my best work started on paper
Behold the holy Grail of text structuring and formatting (as long as you don't want to deal with LaTeX): orgmode
Typst, Perchance
I need to get into Typst. Been hearing about it a lot for a good while.
I checked Typst out a bit. It couldn't do a specific, niche thing I want to do but in general it felt really nice. Definitely feels newer than LaTeX and with less technical debt/baggage. A bit more limited but still nice
And for some reason it seems there's no community for Typst on Threadiverse
Thank you for sharing! I haven't even looked at it yet — I imagine it's like a supercharged Markdown, with ways to interlink documents and that kind of jazz? Am I way off?
I'd rather say it's a cross between the two. Because most of the text is written like MD but then it does have document settings and tables look like in LaTeX
Looks beautiful, wow. Very simple. I so wish I had this through my uni days. LaTeX was pretty powerful but it was pretty painful sometimes as well.
The orgmode site doesn't display properly on my phone. I can't even scroll horizontally to read the text. 😂
emacs heretic! begone from this place!
It is absolutely worth it learning it.
how do i use emacs without vim emulation
They're almost the same thing, so this kinda' hits like two people arguing over which shitbox $300 car they drive is faster...
bro has Luddite in his name
Markdown is so annoying. I wanted to record a command in Joplin and had the audacity to make it bold to highlight something. Pasted it into their terminal and it put a bunch of asterisks in. Thanks.
It does format text in the editor pane by default now but uses a big warning with a button to disable it.
However, the built-in code highlighter, much
like in many Lemmy frontends, highlights
some words/symbols depending on the default
language. Therefore, it's best to not use
4 spaces at the start of each line for a code block.
Instead, this one starts with "```text" and
ends with "```". No extra indents and I get
to specify the highlighting language!
Edit: Damn
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Ngl plain txt is the best . But not for writing blog . Need something like # for headings and stuff . To make my blog portable i don't use mardow much just # for heading and # for tag
I do like me some htmx
A quality text file is a bit of a lost art these days. I like looking through this archive of old text files from the 80s and 90s once in a while. http://textfiles.com/directory.html
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