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My wifey is a teacher in SD36. I have been trying to get her to use Markdown to make notes for kids and create worksheets/tests. I think this will work!

c-smile 8y ago
Pretty much the same situation here. My wife is writing quite a lot on Internet these days - on near scientific subjects. I started doing that HTML-NOTEPAD three months ago when she asked how to insert table on PhpBB forum. Editing sequence of [tr][td]'s is not an option for her as she is naturally blond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_stereotype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_stereotype).
- gunnihinn 8y ago
  Umm... what?
  - c-smile 8y ago
    PhpBB is a popular forum engine that supports so called BBCodes - variation of markup/markdown. So you can create pretty reach discussion messages. But when you need to provide tabular data (statistic results for example) ... and by people of Excel age ... challenging at least. Support of various half-backed markups/markdowns is one of design goals.
    - gunnihinn 8y ago
      I’m sorry, I didn’t make clear enough I was expressing surprise at your casual sexism.
      - throwrhebrick 8y ago
        I thought the blonde stereotype was gender neutral?
      - thunderbong 8y ago
        I'm sure he got it!
      - c-smile 8y ago
        "casual sexism" umm … what? 5% of population is capable to be leaders - to manage people and businesses . There are 7% of people who have abstract minds to do science. We are not equal in this respect. At the same time that absolutely does not mean that we are bad or "second tier" people. Each of us has its perfect "half" that we love. Even more - love is not possible between twos who have absolutely similar characters and skills. I was born in USSR so quite familiar with enforced equality. And back to subject: being an author of HTML/CSS engine I am quite familiar with HTML/CSS. Yet did couple of Markdown-to-HTML parsers. So I know all this stuff from inside out. But still I cannot convince myself of typing structured texts using monospace fonts of plain text editors. That's inhumane at least. Proportional fonts are there on purpose. Why, the heck, I or she shall use those "poor man WYSIWYGs" (Markdown & friends) in 21st century when robots are landing on asteroids and other planets?
        Keyframe 8y ago
        Looks like Terry Davis has a successor!
        devwastaken 8y ago
        It's not about enforced equality, it's that there is no proof of your generalizations, and trying to be an authority on it is at best reaching for straws. We hardly know epigenetics and physical psychology. What we do know is that people tend to fills roles they're treated as, or are looked down on when not, so we try to diminish those effects by giving the opportunity of equality, however that individual may want to go about it. If you meant it as a joke I don't actually mind that much, y'all are married, but it's when you're serious about it that people are going to call it out.
  - odethrow 8y ago
    It's a joke. It's his wife. If you get triggered by the smallest of things maybe don't visit internet. We're not going to change everything to make it your safe space

c-smile 8y ago

Pretty much the same situation here. My wife is writing quite a lot on Internet these days - on near scientific subjects. I started doing that HTML-NOTEPAD three months ago when she asked how to insert table on PhpBB forum. Editing sequence of [tr][td]'s is not an option for her as she is naturally blond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_stereotype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_stereotype).

gunnihinn 8y ago
Umm... what?
- c-smile 8y ago
  PhpBB is a popular forum engine that supports so called BBCodes - variation of markup/markdown. So you can create pretty reach discussion messages. But when you need to provide tabular data (statistic results for example) ... and by people of Excel age ... challenging at least. Support of various half-backed markups/markdowns is one of design goals.
  - gunnihinn 8y ago
    I’m sorry, I didn’t make clear enough I was expressing surprise at your casual sexism.
    - throwrhebrick 8y ago
      I thought the blonde stereotype was gender neutral?
    - thunderbong 8y ago
      I'm sure he got it!
    - c-smile 8y ago
      "casual sexism" umm … what? 5% of population is capable to be leaders - to manage people and businesses . There are 7% of people who have abstract minds to do science. We are not equal in this respect. At the same time that absolutely does not mean that we are bad or "second tier" people. Each of us has its perfect "half" that we love. Even more - love is not possible between twos who have absolutely similar characters and skills. I was born in USSR so quite familiar with enforced equality. And back to subject: being an author of HTML/CSS engine I am quite familiar with HTML/CSS. Yet did couple of Markdown-to-HTML parsers. So I know all this stuff from inside out. But still I cannot convince myself of typing structured texts using monospace fonts of plain text editors. That's inhumane at least. Proportional fonts are there on purpose. Why, the heck, I or she shall use those "poor man WYSIWYGs" (Markdown & friends) in 21st century when robots are landing on asteroids and other planets?
      - Keyframe 8y ago
        Looks like Terry Davis has a successor!
      - devwastaken 8y ago
        It's not about enforced equality, it's that there is no proof of your generalizations, and trying to be an authority on it is at best reaching for straws. We hardly know epigenetics and physical psychology. What we do know is that people tend to fills roles they're treated as, or are looked down on when not, so we try to diminish those effects by giving the opportunity of equality, however that individual may want to go about it. If you meant it as a joke I don't actually mind that much, y'all are married, but it's when you're serious about it that people are going to call it out.
- odethrow 8y ago
  It's a joke. It's his wife. If you get triggered by the smallest of things maybe don't visit internet. We're not going to change everything to make it your safe space