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I write academic articles and like to use markdown for that, but you soon run into limitations that require non-standard tools. Precisely formatted tables… cita
by dash2 5y ago
I write academic articles and like to use markdown for that, but you soon run into limitations that require non-standard tools. Precisely formatted tables… citations… line numbering… page numbering… inline maths… image placement… none are part of basic markdown. Outputting nice text is a big complex job, as the existence of TeX (ugh) shows.
- Falkon1313 5y agoTrue, different tools for different jobs. That brings back repressed memories of the painful experience when a client came in with a Quark file (desktop publishing) that they wanted converted into a website. Getting the data out was difficult enough, actually formatting it and trying to replicate the layouts and styles and all was a nightmare. (This was back in the IE 5/6 days, btw - none of the modern CSS niceties.) Just because you can do something (in desktop publishing software or otherwise) doesn't mean you should, and certainly doesn't mean a document optimized for print is good for the web.