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by applicative
4 days ago
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> Like, being able to write scripts, have figures and custom styling, populate data from JSON files, plugins, typography, numbered sections, footnotes and all sorts of other stuff. Markdown doesn't even support comments properly! it is plain you want typst or latex and not a markdown or any other so called lightweight markup - and you were lying about footnotes, figures, numbered sections, and depending what you meant, a number of other things. It completely violates the concept that you are doing 'custom styling', typography ... you might as well add launching missiles, calling a C compiler, etc. Why not use microsoft word? I find markdowns irritating in many ways -- only those are not among them. Why would I want an intellectual document to be in a programming language? |
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Yes, I've been quite clear on that point. Markdown isn't powerful enough for some of the writing I do.
Upthread you wrote this:
> Ordinary markdowns have had /everything/ you mention for close to 20 years
If this were true, I would have used markdown. If this were true, you would be able to cite a good markdown based tool which had the features I need. You have not.
> you were lying about footnotes, figures, numbered sections, and depending what you meant, a number of other things.
What a strange thing to say. Why would I lie? My needs are quite simple. I want a tool to let me write and publish beautiful essays. (And documentation and the like). Like this:
https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
I tried really hard to make markdown do what I want. I wrote this with markdown a few years ago:
https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
But markdown isn't powerful enough. For example, I want my diagrams to have captions. And I want to be able to reference to my diagrams from the body - eg "In Diagram 3, ...." and have the diagram in a little box which says "Diagram 3" at the top. And if you click a diagram, it should open a lightbox. I tried a bunch of markdown tooling, but none of it did what I wanted. The bare-bones styling of that webpage is a result of me getting fed up fighting markdown. And I just hit publish.
> It completely violates the concept that you are doing 'custom styling', typography ... you might as well add launching missiles
Bruh what? I want a good authoring tool. Something that lets me write words and render them as a beautiful webpage. Markdown is great for project readmes and things like that. But markdown is a bad tool for the rich, long form essays I want to write. The fact you don't know that isn't evidence that I'm lying. It's just evidence that you're ignorant about the tools I - and others - need to do our jobs.
If you're confused about my tool choice, some curiosity and humility would serve you better than vitriol.