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I'm a big fan of Perl myself, but when writing POD, I occasionally stumble about the C<...> for inline code. The problem is that you have to take care that the

I'm a big fan of Perl myself, but when writing POD, I occasionally stumble about the C<...> for inline code. The problem is that you have to take care that there is no > in the inline code, and if there is, you have to switch to C<< ... >>. With Markdown's `...`, this happened far less often to me.

lifthrasiir 8y ago
You are right that it is suboptimal. (I do think that Scribble's choice of braces is not too bad in this regard.) On the other hand, I can't readily type backquotes in my mobile phone or recent macOS [1] so there is a trade-off :-) [1] Annoyingly enough, macOS Sierra and later maps a backquote to a Won sign in Korean keyboard layouts.
- elcritch 8y ago
  Never read scribble before but I kinda like it. It reminds me of the good parts of latex. As in @action vs \action. Though I don’t like the table syntax as much from a WYSIWYG level (E.g. it doesn’t look table-ly) but for complex tables it don’t matter much. Can you readily extend scribble with Racket and how’s the install/usage story?
  - lifthrasiir 8y ago
    I think it is in the default Racket install. And yes, that's a problem; it is actually a Racket code behind the scene so it is fundamentally tied to Racket (that can be good or bad depending on your use case, and some strength points can be attributed to that).
  - Eugeleo 8y ago
    I know we're talking about docs right now, which is where Scribble really shines. And when it comes to blogging/prose, I'd recommend Pollen[1], which is a writing system based on scribble. It is fairly lightweight and extensible with Racket (which is by the way actually a pretty awesome language). I'm writing my college notes in it and couldn't be happier. The dev is very responsive on mailing lists and would gladly help you out if you have some trouble initially. There is a pretty thorough getting started guide on the linked page. There's a few blogs written in Pollen and even a few books (Ever heard about Flatland? Or Practical Typography?). [1] http://pollenpub.com http://pollenpub.com

lifthrasiir 8y ago

You are right that it is suboptimal. (I do think that Scribble's choice of braces is not too bad in this regard.) On the other hand, I can't readily type backquotes in my mobile phone or recent macOS [1] so there is a trade-off :-) [1] Annoyingly enough, macOS Sierra and later maps a backquote to a Won sign in Korean keyboard layouts.

elcritch 8y ago
Never read scribble before but I kinda like it. It reminds me of the good parts of latex. As in @action vs \action. Though I don’t like the table syntax as much from a WYSIWYG level (E.g. it doesn’t look table-ly) but for complex tables it don’t matter much. Can you readily extend scribble with Racket and how’s the install/usage story?
- lifthrasiir 8y ago
  I think it is in the default Racket install. And yes, that's a problem; it is actually a Racket code behind the scene so it is fundamentally tied to Racket (that can be good or bad depending on your use case, and some strength points can be attributed to that).
- Eugeleo 8y ago
  I know we're talking about docs right now, which is where Scribble really shines. And when it comes to blogging/prose, I'd recommend Pollen[1], which is a writing system based on scribble. It is fairly lightweight and extensible with Racket (which is by the way actually a pretty awesome language). I'm writing my college notes in it and couldn't be happier. The dev is very responsive on mailing lists and would gladly help you out if you have some trouble initially. There is a pretty thorough getting started guide on the linked page. There's a few blogs written in Pollen and even a few books (Ever heard about Flatland? Or Practical Typography?). [1] http://pollenpub.com http://pollenpub.com