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I do; of all the lightweight markup languages, it seems like only txt2tags has a sane representation of HTML links. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight

• JetSpiegel 12y ago
  Ugh, that's the syntax of TVTropes. What a mess, I never know if the title comes before or after the link, and whether to wrap with 1 or 2 square braces.
  • cogburnd02 12y ago
    [ @JetSpiegel ] Challenge: (1) write an 8-page (or more) document with 32 (or more) hyperlinks in it in both txt2tags and any other format. (2) Print out the plain-ASCII source files. (3) Wait until you forget the whole text of what you've written. (4) Re-read it (both versions) somewhere without access to a computer/phone/tablet. (e.g. the bathroom) You will understand why txt2tags makes more sense: (1) Less markup [i.e. fewer characters] than Markdown, Textile/Texy, AFT, reST (2) Text-first, unlike AsciiDoc, MediaWiki, PmWiki, Org-Mode, BBCode. Text-first leads to better/easier readability of source ASCII IM(NSH)O. (3) Unlike POD, has a syntax for named links.