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Markdown remains the best hybrid for me, because it strikes the perfect balance between a. formal enough to use pandoc and make htmls, doxc, etc with it and b.

by n1000 7y ago

Markdown remains the best hybrid for me, because it strikes the perfect balance between a. formal enough to use pandoc and make htmls, doxc, etc with it and b. still fully human readable, which allows me to take all my meeting minutes with it and be able to quickly copy & paste them into an email or store them on our project share and nobody will really wonder.

osrec 7y ago
I like markdown, but also like asciidoc for when you need your documents to be a bit smarter.
- cmroanirgo 7y ago
  I'm a bit of a fan of textile [0] and first came across the redcloth version[1] years ago, especially for non technical writing. In particular, it's closely aligned to the html that gets generated without all the angles. Eg. You can easily add class and/or id to a paragraph: > Some text p.red Some red text It has easy to do left, centre and right alignments. Markdown was (slightly) influenced by textile too [2]: > While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters — including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText — the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email. Too bad it's gone the way of the dodo [3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language) [1] http://redcloth.org/ http://redcloth.org/ [2] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax [3] https://github.blog/2016-03-01-upgrading-your-textile-posts-to-markdown/ https://github.blog/2016-03-01-upgrading-your-textile-posts-...
  - pattisapu 7y ago
    Indeed, Textile is slightly more intuitive and powerful than Markdown, but these days it's unaccountably Betamaxing.
  - pattisapu 7y ago
    And simple, helpful things like automatic list numbering are in Textile but not in canonical Markdown.

by n1000 7y ago

osrec 7y ago

I like markdown, but also like asciidoc for when you need your documents to be a bit smarter.

cmroanirgo 7y ago
I'm a bit of a fan of textile [0] and first came across the redcloth version[1] years ago, especially for non technical writing. In particular, it's closely aligned to the html that gets generated without all the angles. Eg. You can easily add class and/or id to a paragraph: > Some text p.red Some red text It has easy to do left, centre and right alignments. Markdown was (slightly) influenced by textile too [2]: > While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters — including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText — the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email. Too bad it's gone the way of the dodo [3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language) [1] http://redcloth.org/ http://redcloth.org/ [2] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax [3] https://github.blog/2016-03-01-upgrading-your-textile-posts-to-markdown/ https://github.blog/2016-03-01-upgrading-your-textile-posts-...
- pattisapu 7y ago
  Indeed, Textile is slightly more intuitive and powerful than Markdown, but these days it's unaccountably Betamaxing.
- pattisapu 7y ago
  And simple, helpful things like automatic list numbering are in Textile but not in canonical Markdown.