On 19 Oct 2017, at 15:17, DavidWeinberger wrote:
It's with a bit of hesitation I add my opinions to this thread. First of
all, I firmly believe that the choice of writing tools is very personal
- for example I love my Lamy 2000 fountain pen, not to mention my multi
colored Pilot G-Tec-C4, add paper of good quality and I'm quite happy.
But it's not practical for me to use these tool all the time, I need to
produce electronic documents and here my tools of choice are BBEdit and
Ulysses. I haven't used Word or any other word processor for the last 25
years (except for a few times when I've been forced to). And as you
might guess I've been using some kind of markup language, a few examples
are roff/nroff/groff/troff, latex, tex, markdown, html and a few more.
All of these have (had) their uses but the format that have had the
biggest effect for me is markdown. Today, I write web pages, comments to
students, course documents, instruction, slides, documentations, etc all
in markdown or some dialect of it. However, if I'm writing something
that is going to be printed I'm using LaTeX - I actually was thinking
about this earlier this week when I was writing something that is going
to be printed. I found it very cumbersome to write latex and when I get
some spare time I'm going to invest that time trying to find the best
way to write in markdown but convert to latex so I can get the
formatting right (I know about some tools but I have some specific
requirements that I need to investigate).
But back to the subject, for me and for what I'm doing markdown (I'm
including the various dialects I use) is a very flexible, powerful way
of marking up text so I can use it in various ways. My documents usually
include headlines, lists, images, links to various online resources,
source code, etc. If I were to write a book I wouldn't hesitate to use
markdown.
My current tools to achieve this is BBEdit, Ulysses, Marked, Deckset and
Multimarkdown.
But as I said above, the choice of writing tools is very personal and
also depends on factors like what is being written, external
requirements, etc.
= jem
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