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I like Markdown for self-contained one page documents with basic formatting - reddit comments, README.md etc. For anything more it's just inadequate.
by The_Colonel 4y ago
I like Markdown for self-contained one page documents with basic formatting - reddit comments, README.md etc.
For anything more it's just inadequate.
- Ekaros 4y agoAnd on other hand tools suitable for more complex things are probably too much for one page documents. So it is really choosing right tool for right job.
- themadturk 4y agoI wrote a 98,000+ word novel in Markdown. Pandoc renders it perfectly to Word. The text included a title page, epigraphs in italic, headers of various levels for parts, chapters, scenes. All I had to do in Word was make sure my paragraph styles were set up the way I wanted (and that Pandoc knew what they were supposed to look like), then run a macro to get rid of the cr/lfs between paragraphs. I don't know if the novel was any good, but it looked good. Markdown was certainly adequate.
- The_Colonel 4y agoWhat I had more in mind was e.g. linking between different documents, images, tables, footnotes etc. I guess most of these are possible (depending on your Markdown flavor), but largely very awkward.