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 (DIR) Post #AxGiE01V9YcBCDq61w by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-17T18:07:29Z
       
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       #Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Insteadhttps://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext  #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGzMoR3Iw7B5GZwEi by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-17T21:19:32Z
       
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       @bouncepaw 🙇 What's a banger article to you?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxHvS3sl5yYzmTkHXU by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-18T08:10:28Z
       
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       @bouncepaw I expect quite some backslash. 😜
       
 (DIR) Post #AxHzNirLiOkdEqGyDg by positivedinosaur@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
       2025-08-18T08:54:24Z
       
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       @publicvoit If backlash is what you want, you can have it 🤪 Nah, I agree with many of the criticism towards Markdown.Unfortunately I also live in a world where write simple documentes in MS Word and the use of plain text is "something for hackers".In that regard Markdown is easier to communicate than other file formats, especially because there are so many resources for beginners(!) online.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxHzjbKIP5cKFIFEbA by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-18T08:58:19Z
       
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       @positivedinosaur One of my next articles will be a motivational article to use LML workflows to generate (some) documents instead of using WYSIWYM.So this will involve processes that are typically done with Markdown but - of course - I'll promote better LMLs for the same workflow.In most cases, the "normal users" should not design such workflows. This is the job for an IT savvy person. "Normal users" should only be using that process to generate their documents, not designing all the process details. So the choice of the LML should be done by people who know what they're doing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxHzzEiaEDo8lE3oUC by positivedinosaur@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
       2025-08-18T09:01:17Z
       
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       @publicvoit Looking forward to that article as a reference to create bottom-up pressure to change the organisation towards something that’s not entirely locked into singular software providers.Because reality here is that the choice of tooling was not made by IT savvy people, but people that want what they want, because they want that. 🙃
       
 (DIR) Post #AxJAtnfudjAi5tNikK by thet@graz.social
       2025-08-18T22:38:16Z
       
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       @publicvoit I disagree. Markdown is not a disaster for me. I do remember when I learned markdown. The learning curve was plain flat - just a bunch of hash-signs for headings (I don't care about other options), listings just as I would write them without knowing the syntax, plain URLs are also supported - it can't be simpler for these things and I was happy to switch from ReST. I agree, tables and URLs with descriptions are ugly and I always have to look up for the syntax. But still - MD is even good enough for writing docs for the projects I contribute to and for my personal information base where I need a hierarchical structure and search via ripgrep. When I need a more sophisticated layout I use LaTeX or HTML.I keep using it until I need more semantics or metadata options which is when I might switch to Org-mode.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXRhfxrtpvU8i1Wz2 by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-25T19:52:32Z
       
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       #irreal features my #Markdown article: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13221#Emacs #orgdown #orgmode #LML