Paolo AmorosoThe slow but steady rise of Markdown seen through the lens of the developers of iA Writer.
https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish
Karl Voit 
@amoroso My thoughts:
- They mix up Markdown with the general term lightweight #markup language (as if #Markdown is the only #LML syntax)
- They ignore all other markup syntax examples such as (La)TeX, HTML, ...
- great screenshots of Word for DOS upwards 👍
- the title should be "#WYSIWYG vs. LML" (instead of the Word vs. Markdown story)
- no mentioning of other LML examples
Well it looks, as if we're settling for a mediocre standard again.
Related: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
Rolf Stöckli@publicvoit @amoroso I've no idea why they mention PDF in this context.
Michael Jaeger 🇺🇦I'm always puzzled that AsciiDoc is so unpopular, often forgotten, and regularly misunderstood. I guess the reason for that is that there is a difference between #AsciiDoc and the most popular implementation #Asciidoctor. The later is the basis for the new effort of defining a solid standard under the umbrella of the eclipse foundation.
Also in your blog entry you refer to a cheat sheet which shows deprecated formatting which is mostly only supported for backwards compatibility. Here you will find an up-to-date reference of the language which explains much better how AsciiDoc works: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/
#AsciiDoc #Asciidoctor #markup #Markdown #LML #WYSIWYG #orgdown #orgmode
It's been years now that I wrote documents with a Word processor, since I'm only using Markdown and AsciiDoc. I also tried to get my head around #OrgMode, but every format has its pros and cons. I would love to use Org Mode for my day to day notes, but unfortunately I could not find any decent Android app which supports that. So I'm stuck here with Obsidian for the moment.
#AsciiDoc #Asciidoctor #markup #Markdown #LML #WYSIWYG #orgdown #orgmode
@michael_jaeger @amoroso I'm using Orgzly Revived on Android but mostly for capture and reading through my notes.
@publicvoit Right, that's why I qualified "through the lens of the developers of iA Writer". Some narrow focus or bias is to be expected. Still, I think the main point stands: Markdown is growing steadily.