So read the thread that yuriy rasied last week
my sumarry
- write in pier
publish in latex, html, markdong
- too many variation of markdown
- do not want to ask in haskell, ruby… to extend libraries
- markdown does not support references and other essential points for
making decent books
Stef
On Nov 13, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Benjamin <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It was a real question, and it feels like you overreacted the answer …
>
> To me, markdown or pier is a new syntax to learn so I am asking …
> To me, doing Pier because you do or because you said to is no really an
> argument.
>
> Then I am open to a real answer but I also see that markdown is integrated to
> a lot of tools (github and jekylls by examples)
> and that a lot of people knows about markdown.
>
> This was a real question, not a troll ...
>
> Ben
>
> On 13 Nov 2013, at 19:22, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> do you really think that I insist of using pier syntax because
>> A- I want to lose my time
>> B- this is for my ego?
>> C- because I'm funny
>> D- ...
>>
>> No seriously?
>>
>> If you want to get an answer read the thread that yuri raised a while ago.
>> Because we already discussed discussed and discussed it.
>>
>> I will not write any book in markdown. Now you can try and we see.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>> Stef, what is the advantages of writing it in Pier compared to markdown ?
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>
>>
>
