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I've tried to switch to Markdown almost completely for portability, but I end up having to return to Word frequently to accomplish certain features. IMO, Markdo
by AdmiralAsshat 9y ago
I've tried to switch to Markdown almost completely for portability, but I end up having to return to Word frequently to accomplish certain features. IMO, Markdown's biggest flaw was that the original feature set was incomplete, and everyone has tried to fill in the gaps (TOC, tables, references, etc.) their own way instead of settling on an updated standard. That makes it really frustrating when I've got to rely on GitHub-flavored Markdown to accomplish something without being able to trust that it will work on a platform that only supports vanilla Markdown, etc.
One thing I will give Word credit for, despite all my qualms with it, is that it's probably the only program that I can blindly paste something from my clipboard and expect that Word will render it reasonably well.
- sandworm101 9y ago>>> that Word will render it reasonably well. You know MS products are pretty bad when the best one expects is that content cut from another owned product renders "reasonably well". We should expect, demand, that windows clipboard integrate perfectly with Word.
- dmh2000 9y agomaybe its harder than it looks
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago> it's probably the only program that I can blindly paste something from my clipboard and expect that Word will render it reasonably well. Which is funny, because going the other direction (copying from Word then pasting elsewhere) seems to guarantee _interesting_ output. Mangled quotes being the most famous example.
- jxdxbx 9y agoMarkdown was specifically designed to just be shorthand for HTML tags--most of the missing features don't meet that criterion.