On Tue, 14 May 2019 03:50:46 -0700 (PDT) "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone think AsciiDoctor is a bad idea? I think it's easy to argue that there are better (more expressive / extensible) text dialects than markdown. restructuredText is an obvious example. The problem is that markdown's what everyone uses / expects. So the downside to anything that's not markdown is that people won't know it, whereas they would know markdown. Pandoc markdown has enough extensions to allow research papers to be written in it (tables, figures, captions, citations, cross references etc.) but it's more a collection of plugins adopting assorted variations than a coherent whole. I wish restructuredText or something like it had won the text markup war and not markdown, but it didn't. I haven't used asciiDoc but I've heard of it often enough to think it's a persistent ecosystem, it's just a matter of balancing functionality with familiarity across possible contributors. Cheers -Terry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/20190514084648.65712dd5%40lakeview. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
