As someone who came to emacs and org-mode after using Markdown on Github for quite a while as "the default readme format", it's a consolation to find that Github supports "pretty" formatting of org-mode: https://gist.github.com/Trevoke/667a02bfbe464c1b9011
Org-mode is significantly more powerful and nicer than markdown. I think that is part of its problem. Look at Daniel's TODO list on the implementation of org-mode syntax for Sublime Text: https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode/blob/master/messages/install.org#features Another way of looking at it is that markdown is just a subset of org-mode anyway... :) On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:17 PM Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> wrote: > > On 2015-10-25, at 16:55, Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2015-10-25 at 07:12, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > >> Interesting. One day I imagine something like this, or sharelatex > >> exists for collaborating on org-files with people who don't like > >> Emacs... > > > > One can hope, but unfortunately it seems Markdown is the default > implementation for people supporting a simple markup language. > > Yes. Sometimes I wish Org-mode used Markdown by default. Then, I start > to think "yes, fine, but /which/ Markdown?", and I feel better;-). > > (The problem with Markdown seems to be that there is no "official" > version. Also, if Org-mode were tied to some external standard, Org's > own development - like in "adding new features" - would become > problematic.) > > > -k. > > Best, > > -- > Marcin Borkowski > http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski > Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science > Adam Mickiewicz University > >
