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Just curious if a WYSIWYG is planned for this. With all the possible languages one can learn, learning one for documentation alone seems like cognitive overload
by mankash666 10y ago
Just curious if a WYSIWYG is planned for this. With all the possible languages one can learn, learning one for documentation alone seems like cognitive overload, especially if an application can do it for you
- no_protocol 10y agoThis already is "what you see is what you get" -- are you asking about some kind of buttons for hints to insert the markup for a certain type?
- mankash666 10y agoNo it's not. You have to type in actual Markdown semantics for the rendering to occur. You don't write XML when you write in MS word, do you?
- no_protocol 10y agoThe demo shows at least a shortcut key for bold text, I'm guessing there are more.
- algorithmsRcool 10y agoYou do not have to type the markdown. You can press Ctrl+B and bold text. You can right click and insert a Table and fill it in as WYSIWYG. You can always type markdown but you don't have to. Pressing Ctrl + / will toggle the whole doc to pure markdown so you can tweak for a second and then flip back to WYSIWYG.
- inimino 10y agoThe only draw of markdown is that it's just plain text. If the overhead of learning it doesn't appeal to you then I think a standard WYSIWYG word processor would be a better choice.
- mankash666 10y agoI don't see how WYSIWYG conflicts with markdowns version controllability, which is it's real advantage over something like MS word. FYI, markdown has WYSIWYG editors already, and this is one of them. This one relies on keyboard shortcuts versus clickable hints, which MS word offers, making it appealing to a non programmer