Hi, folks. Just FYI:
----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> >To: Stephen Eglen <s.j.eg...@damtp.cam.ac.uk> >Cc: ess-h...@r-project.org >Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:08 PM >Subject: Re: [ESS] knitr > >There is no point comparing markdown with org mode, and the answer >will be definitely this: org mode can beat markdown almost everywhere; >they are not even comparable. The point is that markdown was not >designed to provide new features; it was designed to be simple so it >intentionally discarded lots of features and people can learn it >quickly. I have tried a few times to learn org mode, and it is just >too complicated for me. > >Regards, >Yihui >-- >Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> >Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name >Department of Statistics, Iowa State University >2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA > > >On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Stephen Eglen <s.j.eg...@damtp.cam.ac.uk> >wrote: >> >> That's interesting that LaTeX was a barrier for R users. >> >> I've not used Markdown before; it seems neat, but what does it offer >> that org mode doesn't? I see there is a markdown-mode.el >> >> http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ >> >> that has some support for org mode style cycling of outlines. >> >> Anyone prefer markdown to org mode, and if so why? >> >> (If anyone is interested, on the org mode list recently there was >> discussion about exporting org docs to markdown.) >> >> Stephen > >______________________________________________ >ess-h...@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > > >