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KeenWrite[1] is my text editor that takes a slightly different approach than MDX. Rather than include variable definitions within documents, variables are defin

KeenWrite[1] is my text editor that takes a slightly different approach than MDX. Rather than include variable definitions within documents, variables are defined in an external file[2]. I find that when variables are embedded into documents, those variables often include controls for presentation logic. To me, any presentation logic meant to affect a plain text document's presentation does not belong in the document itself. Part 8 of my Typesetting Markdown series shows the power of separating content from presentation by leveraging pandoc's annotation syntax[3]. Annotated Markdown is sufficiently powerful to produce a wide variety of different styles. Here are a few such documents typeset using ConTeXt[5]: * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdown-part-8/images/fire-and-ice.png https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow... * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdown-part-8/jekyll-hyde.pdf https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow... * https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/screenshots.md https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr... What's bothersome is how some companies are setting de facto Markdown standards without considering the greater ecosystem. GitHub has done this by introducing the "``` mermaid" syntax, which creates some problems[6]. [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dFd6UhdV8&t=18s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dFd6UhdV8&t=18s (renamed afterwards) [3]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdown-part-8/#annotations https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow... [4]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdown-part-8/jekyll-hyde.pdf https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow... [5]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation [6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337894

tonetheman 5y ago
What you have done is really interesting. You might need to do more smaller chunks of how to use it though. I watched part of the video and I understood the substitution but the next part just went over my head. Maybe it is like a double pointer. Anyway your editor and your idea is super interesting. Just needs some explanation. Maybe you have already done that somewhere?
- thangalin 5y ago
  Thank you. See the following links for details: * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/tree/master/docs https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/tree/master/docs * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/variables.md https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/var... I visualize the interpolated variables as a tree with many branches due to their recursive relationship.

tonetheman 5y ago

What you have done is really interesting. You might need to do more smaller chunks of how to use it though. I watched part of the video and I understood the substitution but the next part just went over my head. Maybe it is like a double pointer. Anyway your editor and your idea is super interesting. Just needs some explanation. Maybe you have already done that somewhere?

thangalin 5y ago
Thank you. See the following links for details: * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/tree/master/docs https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/tree/master/docs * https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/variables.md https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/var... I visualize the interpolated variables as a tree with many branches due to their recursive relationship.