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This is kind of absurd. Markdown has very specific use cases. For example, using any number of free apps, you can maintain a folder of notes that are human-read
by brigleb 3y ago
This is kind of absurd. Markdown has very specific use cases. For example, using any number of free apps, you can maintain a folder of notes that are human-readable, machine-parsable, that will effectively be useful forever.
You’re really gonna keep that folder of text files in “very good” LaTeX??
- 1letterunixname 3y agoAll the things are tools in the toolbox. Nits: Markdown is general purpose but limited. It's a big improvement on plain text files. Thank you Aaron Swartz (RIP) and John Gruber. I sure don't hand-code doc directly in PDF or PostScript formats, although people used to do the latter before TeX was ubiquitous.