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Users can avoid having to escape the asterisk by using Microsoft Word. It seems to me that you expect some perfect solution to exist, and it is this solution t
by civilized 5y ago
Users can avoid having to escape the asterisk by using Microsoft Word.
It seems to me that you expect some perfect solution to exist, and it is this solution that technologists should make it their mission to find.
I think there is no perfect solution and we should navigate the trade-offs holistically, rather than focusing on a single imperfection like suboptimal asterisks.
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago> It seems to me that you expect some perfect solution to exist First, I don't mean in the Microsoft Word scenario, really (where I think that for very many applications, especially most books and most documentation, it's a very good tool). I mean on the web. If you're putting markdown in front of end users on the web, or even content contributors on the web, you're failing. Second, you're putting words into my mouth when you talk about a perfect solution because I said no such thing. I clearly said better solution. The absence of a perfect solution does not make Markdown equally as good as other possibilities. (For example, I believe that if you had to deploy a text-only editor to web-based end-users, Asciidoc is a more appropriate solution, even if I also accept it has lost the war)
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