Markdown is for writing not for editing. If you want to focus on writing, text, and content instead of on bells and whistles with formatting and typesetting it's really hard to go easier than Markdown.
Sure, Markdown is overused. Probably one shouldn't use it for heavily linked content, where one has to show examples, cross-link, check references, verify the sources etc. and on top of it follow very strict line/page breaking and paragraph rules. But it's not a huge issue, because if the end result is plain text itself one can easily work with pipeline. Text can be easily split, mixed and matched. One can figure out their own content and script it easily assuming they are wanting and tech savvy enough.
Working with text first and then transforming it to LaTeX once the writing process is done is easy. Then you can make semantic adjustments and decide to either output as PDF, process in complex pipeline or plug-in one of the hundreds of solutions that exist today.
It might hold back "editorial" experience but it definitely enables "authoring" experience.
Markdown is for writing not for editing. If you want to focus on writing, text, and content instead of on bells and whistles with formatting and typesetting it's really hard to go easier than Markdown.
That's exactly my argument. I literally quote Gruber on it.
Markdown is for writing not for editing. If you want to focus on writing, text, and content instead of on bells and whistles with formatting and typesetting it's really hard to go easier than Markdown.
Sure, Markdown is overused. Probably one shouldn't use it for heavily linked content, where one has to show examples, cross-link, check references, verify the sources etc. and on top of it follow very strict line/page breaking and paragraph rules. But it's not a huge issue, because if the end result is plain text itself one can easily work with pipeline. Text can be easily split, mixed and matched. One can figure out their own content and script it easily assuming they are wanting and tech savvy enough.
Working with text first and then transforming it to LaTeX once the writing process is done is easy. Then you can make semantic adjustments and decide to either output as PDF, process in complex pipeline or plug-in one of the hundreds of solutions that exist today.
It might hold back "editorial" experience but it definitely enables "authoring" experience.