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by nextos 4076 days ago
Looks great, just watched the video. Have you considered org-mode?
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chriswarbo 4076 days ago
I tried org-mode for a while, but found it overly complicated. I use Emacs heavily, but developed a couple of Pandoc extensions which give me the org-mode features I need without all of the baggage: http://chriswarbo.net/essays/activecode/index.html
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wcaleb 4076 days ago
Have looked at, but not really considered. I went down the Vim path pretty early on ...
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peatmoss 4076 days ago
You can use org-mode with Vim more or less the same as you'd use Markdown if you're planning to compile your doc with Pandoc. You can even use README.org on github in place of README.md, and it will be turned into HTML automagically the same way as Markdown.

Why use org-mode as a format instead of Markdown? Internal cross-references. Org-mode feels just as light weight to me as Markdown for the most part, but it has fewer cases where you can't make things work. Worst case in org-mode, you mix in LaTeX.

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CyberpunkDad 4076 days ago
org-mode is decent for LaTex markdown substitution. * = Section = SubSection

Etc.

I think I still prefer to just write it in markdown. Word can't come close to the typesetting ability of LaTex.

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