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Personally I've found that I prefer a consistent syntax with few special characters — like HTML, but less verbose — which led to the creation of xidoc: https://
by xigoi 4y ago
Personally I've found that I prefer a consistent syntax with few special characters — like HTML, but less verbose — which led to the creation of xidoc: https://xidoc.nim.town/ https://xidoc.nim.town/
- emmanueloga_ 4y agoI have a very simple way of evaluating any sort of markup language. How easy is it to edit tables? https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jgm/djot/blob/master/doc/syntax.html#pipe-table https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jgm/djot/b... In that example, xidoc requires a human to manually align ascii chars to make it look pretty... That's a job that computers are good at! I would rather be able to define some sort of data block: [let "myvar;" [csv; col1,col2,col3 1,2,3 4,5,6 ]] [output-table "myvar"]; ... or something. I'm not sure right now how useful is markdown really... It was a nice experiment but I mostly use it for bullet points (*) and headings (#). I would say that's successful enough as a contribution to internet culture! :-) EDIT: seems like I commented on xidoc+djot at the same time, but the criticism is the same for both languages :-) https://djot.net/ https://djot.net/
- xigoi 4y ago> In that example, xidoc requires a human to manually align ascii chars to make it look pretty... That's a job that computers are good at! What do you mean? I'd say that's true of either every or no language, depending on if your editor has an align plugin. How does your proposed CSV-like format solve this?