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For many purposes it is needlessly verbose to write html by hand. Thats why markdown became popular. But if more people do it and report their usage patterns o
by nologic01 3y ago
For many purposes it is needlessly verbose to write html by hand. Thats why markdown became popular.
But if more people do it and report their usage patterns one could maybe create a "super-markdown", i.e., the closest you could get to mapping html flexibility without the annoying XML verbosity.
- tannhaeuser 3y ago> the closest you could get to mapping html flexibility without the annoying XML verbosity Aka SGML. Though while you can hide those away in an external DTD, SGML of course needs lots of markup declaration ([1]) for HTML "void" (empty) elements, tag inference, and enumerated attribute short forms, and then still more for markdown short references. [1]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/whatwg-html200129-dtd.html https://sgmljs.net/docs/whatwg-html200129-dtd.html
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- tincholio 3y agoArguably, org-mode provides a "better markdown", but it's decidedly more niche.
- alanbernstein 3y agoI like org-mode, but one of my gripes is that code block syntax is too clunky.
- tincholio 3y agoIt's definitely heavier than Markdown's, but then again, it can do a lot more... In practice, if you're using Emacs, it doesn't really matter, because you can just insert a code block, and specify the language (if you're not using Babel stuff)
- xigoi 3y agoI've created xidoc[0], which is meant to make writing HTML (as well as LaTeX) easier and more powerful. [0] http://xidoc.nim.town/ http://xidoc.nim.town/