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Looks nice but isn't the point of markdown pretty much that you can still do your typing in clear, explicit plaintext and then merely generate properly formatte
by yason 10y ago
Looks nice but isn't the point of markdown pretty much that you can still do your typing in clear, explicit plaintext and then merely generate properly formatted html/pdf/whatnot from it, effectively avoiding any wysiwyg editing?
That's what different mark-up languages such as SGML (HTML/XML), LaTeX, even Org mode, etc generally try to achieve: to separate content and presentation. That is, to write the meat of the text explicitly and not even able to worry about how it will look.
- cpplinuxdude 10y agoView > Source Code Mode
- wodenokoto 10y agoYes and no. The point of markdown is that it is human readable both plaintext and rendered. Writing in a rendered environment looks nice, which to some people foster writing. Writing in a rendered environment ensures your markup is correct ( as it wouldn't render, if it wasn't) For me, those two things ensures that I don't have to worry about how things look when I write.