On Wednesday, 25 January 2017 at 10:57:41 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
Asciidoc (and it's continuation Asciidoctor) was invented to be
a human usable front end to the DocBook/XML toolchain – and it
still works for this. Humans should not have to write XML.
Hence Asciidoctor.
DocBook FTW, other magical formats are beyond pathetic. What?
Asccidoc, Asciidoctor, Markdown, SO Markdown, GH Markdown, this
Markdown, that Markdown, Restructured text, yaml, TeX, LaTeX,
XeLaTeX, people invented tons of formats just to markup text for
books and tons of their clones, extensions and incompatibilities,
it's just laughable. Guess what % character means it those
magical languages, or why Markdown chose an opposite approach to
BBcode for square brackets, because it's more fun this way? XML
is one uniform regular readable syntax for everything, it
consists of only tags, attributes and comments, no arbitrary
magical special characters for god only knows what.
