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It’s also fast and efficient to type on the keyboard. Plus it feels very natural. Much more natural than for example html or even bbcode, when you are typing ou

It’s also fast and efficient to type on the keyboard. Plus it feels very natural. Much more natural than for example html or even bbcode, when you are typing out text.

proser 3y ago
Markdown is an authoring language (it's easy to write) rather than a publishing language (like XML, which is mostly replaces, which sucks to write in).
- codetrotter 3y ago
  That’s a perfect way to put it! :)
stunpix 3y ago
> It’s also fast and efficient to type on the keyboard. Plus it feels very natural. If you are solely an English writer then yes. Using md with some languages will quickly turn you into its hater. Certain formatting symbols aren’t easily accessible in some layouts, like backticks for code or ^ for superscript. Some symbols require extra keystrokes like ~ in german. Some layouts will require finger yoga exercises. Basically, any other text markups based on English (including LaTeX) are unfriendly to other languages. Thus an abnormal popularity of md across the apps makes them much less friendly for non-English users. Mobile typing pushes this pain to another level.
- codetrotter 3y ago
  Yeah. My native language has some very awkward placements of certain symbols as well actually. But I chose to sacrifice the letters æ, ø, å years ago by switching to using US-based layouts on my computers. Sometimes I use Dvorak layouts (even have a custom one I made for my mechanical keyboard that I sometimes use). Most of the time I write on a computer in recent years has been using the keyboard on my MacBook Pro computers with just US QWERTY. I very rarely type anything in my native tongue on the computers. Mainly just on the phone. And I am 97% sure that the times I need æ ø å on my macOS laptops I can long-press or option click some of the related characters like a and o. For a while, when I originally switched away from my native language QWERTY variant, I would sometimes need æ ø å on the computer and I would Google aelig oslash and aring respectively and find the symbols for those letters that way :p

It’s also fast and efficient to type on the keyboard. Plus it feels very natural. Much more natural than for example html or even bbcode, when you are typing out text.

proser 3y ago

Markdown is an authoring language (it's easy to write) rather than a publishing language (like XML, which is mostly replaces, which sucks to write in).

codetrotter 3y ago
That’s a perfect way to put it! :)

stunpix 3y ago

> It’s also fast and efficient to type on the keyboard. Plus it feels very natural. If you are solely an English writer then yes. Using md with some languages will quickly turn you into its hater. Certain formatting symbols aren’t easily accessible in some layouts, like backticks for code or ^ for superscript. Some symbols require extra keystrokes like ~ in german. Some layouts will require finger yoga exercises. Basically, any other text markups based on English (including LaTeX) are unfriendly to other languages. Thus an abnormal popularity of md across the apps makes them much less friendly for non-English users. Mobile typing pushes this pain to another level.

codetrotter 3y ago
Yeah. My native language has some very awkward placements of certain symbols as well actually. But I chose to sacrifice the letters æ, ø, å years ago by switching to using US-based layouts on my computers. Sometimes I use Dvorak layouts (even have a custom one I made for my mechanical keyboard that I sometimes use). Most of the time I write on a computer in recent years has been using the keyboard on my MacBook Pro computers with just US QWERTY. I very rarely type anything in my native tongue on the computers. Mainly just on the phone. And I am 97% sure that the times I need æ ø å on my macOS laptops I can long-press or option click some of the related characters like a and o. For a while, when I originally switched away from my native language QWERTY variant, I would sometimes need æ ø å on the computer and I would Google aelig oslash and aring respectively and find the symbols for those letters that way :p