On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 16:38 +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 15:02:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > > > I wouldn't use Markdown for such a project. > > Is there a reason?
Unless life has changed, the support for indexing, tables of contents, floating images, tables, etc. is missing from Markdown. > > Many people might choose Asciidoctor. > > When I looked at asciidoc, it looked like markdown with > extensions. Or put another way Markdown is a stripped down Asciidoctor (or ReStructuredText) for creating single HTML pages with no complicated content. Word (or if you are lucky LibreOffice) is the way most publishers want authors to write. XeLaTeX and Asciidoctor (as a front end to a DocBook/XML toolchain) are the route for end-user construction of press PDF. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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