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I think markdown could be the lingua franca of publishers. HTML would be the best, but it's a bit to specialized. Where as markdown walks the line of being spec
by voidfiles 14y ago
I think markdown could be the lingua franca of publishers. HTML would be the best, but it's a bit to specialized. Where as markdown walks the line of being specialized yet easy enough to learn that it won't scare away brand new users. I mean markdown can interpret plain text into something useful. If enough non-technical sites adopted markdown, front and center, it could spread widely.
- spatten 14y agoWe've found that it works quite well for us on Leanpub, and you're right that the learning curve doesn't seem to be too steep for new writers. We need to be a bit better at this, but starting off with saying "# Chapter" makes a new chapter "## Section" starts a new section this is italic and this is bold. [this is a link](http://example.com http://example.com) gets you 90% of what you need to write a book, and the other 10% is not much harder.