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by accordionclown 9y ago
pshaw. right now, today, tuesday june 13th, 2017, safari will not open a .pdf to a specific page or bookmark, neither on the desktop nor in ios. chrome can. firefox can. but safari cannot. which means neither the iphone nor the ipad can do
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by accordionclown 9y ago
there are 89 flavors of markdown. there will never be a standard markdown. and not just because of xkcd927... if you have a muddy puddle, you can't make it clear by adding more dirt. you have to replace all the muddy water with clear w
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by accordionclown 9y ago
national geographic photographer joelsartore with a short video about the monarchs and #pollinatormonday during "pollinator week", starting june 19th. > https://www.instagram.com/p/BVQSmx7j6l_/
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Monarch butterfly populations are declining(monarchwatch.org)
1 points by accordionclown 9y ago|1 comments
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by accordionclown 9y ago
> You realize that I'm not talking about a problem that you either have or you don't, but one that everyone has to some degree, right? i don't see it that way. i especially don't see it as involving "willpower
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by accordionclown 9y ago
fortunately, i don't find that to be the case for myself. and i like the simplicity and flexibility and freedom of plain-text as my format of choice. but if you or anybody else prefers something different, i urge you to take that path
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by accordionclown 9y ago
that's absolutely the case, yes. light-markup will never do everything ms-word does. nor should it. but typical light-markup systems these days handle all of the features needed for the vast majority of long-form documents which are no
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by accordionclown 9y ago
ah, i see that is true. :+)
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by accordionclown 9y ago
> it's not really much of an advantage over docx having zipped XML. a plain-text light-markup file -- easily read, parsed, and rewritten when necessary by a plethora of apps (text-editors, spell-checkers, grammar-checkers, link-ch
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by accordionclown 9y ago
plain text, in the form of light-markup, can support all of those things, if you bring it into any number of the systems designed to handle it, many of which are open-source and free of cost. ms-word can support those things as well, but on
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by accordionclown 9y ago
nobody talked about dictating "true, actual conversation". here's what prompted that: > when I'm out for a walk or a long drive, I'll start thinking about fiction ideas. Before too long, my wandering mind drill
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by accordionclown 9y ago
> adopt a content pipeline approach, as every commercial book publisher, newspaper and magazine does the main reason they do it that way is because they have different people doing the writing and the layout tasks. but the writers of
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by accordionclown 9y ago
> Formal writing style - especially in long essays - is quite different than spoken word cadences. i think many observers say that reader preferences are trending to a more conversational style these days anyway. and, if you have an i
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by accordionclown 9y ago
your presentation was visually interesting. it was also a bit slow to load, on my machine anyway, maybe due to my typical dozens of tabs in dozens of windows... but i'd explore whether the .svg approach was the offender. of course, let
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Convert a markdown manuscript to pdf/epub/mobi e-books(chrisanthropic.github.io)
118 points by accordionclown 9y ago|27 comments
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by accordionclown 9y ago
i like diagram things like this. you really can't call a .json structure like that "markdown", because the formatting isn't nearly intuitive enough -- for instance, i threw a single-quote in to do a contraction, and that
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by accordionclown 9y ago
light-markup is definitely the way to go, yes. except markdown also makes me feel a bit icky -- too many inconsistencies in the various flavors. markdown's redeeming value is that it's "popular". which is also why it&#x2
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by accordionclown 9y ago
lea, since you're here... i'm creating a mavo project right now and i wanna use a simple textarea as a mavo field. (tinymce makes me feel a little icky inside.) but i didn't see anything in the documentation about how i would
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by accordionclown 9y ago
my impression is that changelogs have become old-fashioned. everyone thinks merely putting stuff on github is sufficient. i think that's silly. but it seems to be what people think.
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by accordionclown 9y ago
your opinion is your opinion, and i wouldn't call it "wrong". but my opinion is quite different. i've been active in the e-book sphere for a long time, and i've studied e-book authoring quite extensively, even pro
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by accordionclown 9y ago
this idea that people are "useless" if they can't be employed by a soul-sucking corporation to make money for it is patently offensive.
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by accordionclown 9y ago
i agree with all that. lot of good wisdom there. as for html-to-markdown conversion, http://markdownrules.com is good.
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by accordionclown 9y ago
moreover, it's had a web-based editor for years now... > https://slides.com i think it started out being free for everybody, but now a free account is available only for public slide-decks. (when it was free for everyo
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by accordionclown 9y ago
you have a point. but you're just talking about _reading_... when it comes to typing, and especially _editing,_ all that markup cruft becomes a distraction (at best), and usually much more like an irritating obstacle. and you glossed o
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by accordionclown 9y ago
it looks a heckuva lot more simple to me. and clear. and that's just from an "easy on the eyes" standpoint. when i also think about actually typing all those unnecessary angle-brackets, i break out in hives. it's not &
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by accordionclown 10y ago
.pdf creation is a nice little bonus, thanks to decktape.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
what is your language of choice? javascript, perhaps?
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by accordionclown 10y ago
this could be very useful for some applications.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
this is a really important point. programs are self-contained entities, whereas prose often drags in multitudes of real-world context involving assumptions, motives, and other considerations. a diff might inform you of an edit in chapter 2
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by accordionclown 10y ago
in the same way that one-sentence-per-line gives you much more fine-grained diffs than one-paragraph-per-line, notching it down to one-phrase-per-line gives the best results. a simple javascript routine can do that split

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