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by thearn4 3866 days ago
Interesting - is the idea behind free markdown desktop editing with PDF export to basically replace traditional document editors like Word or Open/Libre Office?

I'm used to thinking about markdown as just a tool for lazy people (like me) to get basic HTML formatting. Particularly for Github READMEs, and the like. LaTeX is the document preparation system that I really use (largely because of publication expectations, but I'm also pretty comfy with it at this point). The learning curve is steep.

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For me markdown is easier and quicker to use than WYSISWYG editors. Combined with styling from CSS you can make some really nice looking documents from it. If I where able to export to pdf I'd definitely use it instead of word.