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Markdown is a bad joke.

• cjsuk 9y ago
  It's really fine for casual documentation. I wouldn't write a book or a paper in it though.
  • gaius 9y ago
    R Markdown is a joy to use and people even do write books with it!
  • dredmorbius 9y ago
    For a straight-text book, actually, Markdown is excellent. You can include images, or for technical content, tables, easily. Technical papers with formulae and complex references are slightly more detailed, but that ends up being gloss. Even LaTeX for a simple text is quite minimal (though you need the starting template). Source: I've made something of a hobby of marking up source docs into HTML, LaTeX, and Markdown. Of the set, Markdown would be my first go-to, and I've used it for some book-length projects. Example here: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lhw2eq4qmnnwxijlcrfyba https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lhw2eq4qmnnwxijlcrfyba
    • snakeanus 9y ago
      > For a straight-text book, actually, Markdown is excellent. You can include images, or for technical content, tables, easily. I would probably use org-mode for that.
      • dredmorbius 9y ago
        Another solid option, yes.