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> “The horrors of EasyWriter were such that I decided to write my own word processor to get the book done.” LOL. A true geek. Just yesterday I was updating my

> “The horrors of EasyWriter were such that I decided to write my own word processor to get the book done.” LOL. A true geek. Just yesterday I was updating my resume, decided to use Markdown and was less than impressed with the various templates and scripts out there. So of course I spent the next couple hours writing up a conversion script to automatically add <sections>'s to the bog standard Markdown-to-HTML pandoc output so I'd have better handles to use to format the doc with css grid (without having to insert all that HTML by hand.) [Insert related XKCD here.] <rant>While I'm here... Markdown is the absolute worst POS "standard" ever created. I truly despise it. I do, however, love Typora.io because it's a beautiful, simple rich text editor. But the insanity of using a WYSIWYG editor to output a piece of crap text document with a barely parsable syntax, which I then have to convert and clean up using command line tools to get back to a formatted document is truly fucking moronic. Why haven't we just solved this problem? We can copy and paste custom colored emojis and Klingon characters between apps and platforms without issues now, but bold, italic, bullets and font sizes are somehow beyond human kind's ability to find an answer? Really? It's just batshit insane. <\rant>

johnblood 4y ago
I've been using Markdown for a while and know what you mean. I just came across this article last week: https://opensource.com/article/22/8/drop-markdown-asciidoc https://opensource.com/article/22/8/drop-markdown-asciidoc. Maybe it could help you.
- russellbeattie 4y ago
  There's just so much support for Markdown at this point, I've just bit the bullet and used it. RemarkJS has a bunch of plugins, so if you know enough to wire it together it's relatively simple to get decent results customized to your needs. It separates the input from the output and uses a real AST, so maybe it might spur some new ideas for some sort of text+ spec that could be adopted. The idea of Markdown isn't bad - separate the writing from the design. It's just horribly designed. I'd actually love to see a basic rich text document format based on a very strict subset of HTML with no JS, extremely limited CSS and basic tags - created for reading and writing, unlike most web pages - but still compatible with the full spec. Like an editable ePub or mobi format. For anyone who happens upon this later, after finishing the resume, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out the CSS printing rules for page breaks don't work with CSS grid, making printing a PDF a nightmare.
Sunspark 4y ago
Unicode denied the request for Klingon characters to appear in the standard.
- russellbeattie 4y ago
  Heh. I stand corrected! I think I saw that was going to happen but didn't realize that cooler heads prevailed.

johnblood 4y ago

I've been using Markdown for a while and know what you mean. I just came across this article last week: https://opensource.com/article/22/8/drop-markdown-asciidoc https://opensource.com/article/22/8/drop-markdown-asciidoc. Maybe it could help you.

russellbeattie 4y ago
There's just so much support for Markdown at this point, I've just bit the bullet and used it. RemarkJS has a bunch of plugins, so if you know enough to wire it together it's relatively simple to get decent results customized to your needs. It separates the input from the output and uses a real AST, so maybe it might spur some new ideas for some sort of text+ spec that could be adopted. The idea of Markdown isn't bad - separate the writing from the design. It's just horribly designed. I'd actually love to see a basic rich text document format based on a very strict subset of HTML with no JS, extremely limited CSS and basic tags - created for reading and writing, unlike most web pages - but still compatible with the full spec. Like an editable ePub or mobi format. For anyone who happens upon this later, after finishing the resume, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out the CSS printing rules for page breaks don't work with CSS grid, making printing a PDF a nightmare.

Sunspark 4y ago

Unicode denied the request for Klingon characters to appear in the standard.

russellbeattie 4y ago
Heh. I stand corrected! I think I saw that was going to happen but didn't realize that cooler heads prevailed.