[HN Gopher] Scroll: Extensible Alternative to Markdown
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       Scroll: Extensible Alternative to Markdown
        
       Author : podiki
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-11-10 05:42 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (scroll.pub)
 (TXT) w3m dump (scroll.pub)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Sorry for offtopicness - could you please email
       | hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you a repost invite for a
       | different submission.
        
       | ehutch79 wrote:
       | How do they intend to convince people to switch to this?
       | 
       | Restructured Text didn't go anywhere despite being technically
       | superior. Now there's even more inertia here
        
       | crooked-v wrote:
       | The need to use keywords for basic stuff like plain text
       | paragraphs loses sight of the entire point of Markdown in the
       | first place.
        
       | darknavi wrote:
       | I'd argue that one of the main benefits of MD is the portability,
       | but it is remarkably stupid how different various platforms
       | subtly tweak MD syntax. I swear ADO, Slack, Reddit, etc. all have
       | slightly different rule sets and it takes me two or three tries
       | when swapping between then to get it right.
        
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