On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 4:14:30 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote:
> > 1. Those who are planning major writing projects would be well advised to > make a serious study of the strengths and weakness of the major contenders, > including Jupyter, LaTeX, reStructuredText, and Leo. And yes, it will take > some study. wysiwyg editors and simplistic markup languages like markdown > are too limiting. Better to invest in more powerful tools. > > 2. It is a great mistake to underestimate the capabilities of existing > tools. > > I have made this mistake several times. 30 years ago, I despaired of using > Emacs because I didn't understand that tab completion makes it unnecessary > to remember full command names, or to type them. Had I understood this, I > would likely have based Leo on Emacs. Leo's entire history would have > changed, and I would not have spent much of the last 30 years dealing with > tangential editor-related issues. > > In short,* please* take the time to study what is already possible. Major > tools typically have dozens or even hundreds of contributors. It would be > impossible to do better on one's own. > Edward is absolutely right in recommending using existing tools when possible. I am looking for a markup language for plain-text files, some of which are documentation meant for PDF or ODF, some of which are plain text meant for conversion via templates to static HTML5 for a Web site. Has anyone else worked with AsciiDoc format? AsciiDoc is meant to be less ad-hoc than Markdown and the variants thereof. It is meant to be semantically equivalent to DocBook XML, and its creators are early in an effort to write a specification complete with an open Technology Compatibility Kit <https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Announcing-the-formation-of-the-AsciiDoc-Working-Group-and-invitation-to-join-td7626.html>. The creators of AsciiDoc offer Asciidoctor <https://asciidoctor.org>, a " *fast*, open source <https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/master/LICENSE> text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc <https://asciidoctor.org/docs/what-is-asciidoc> content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats"; AsciiDoctor is cross-platform, written in Ruby; AsciidoctorJ <https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctorj> runs on a Java Virtual Machine, and Asciidoctor.js <https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor.js> in JavaScript environments, including Web browsers. The leaders of the Asciidoctor project write that AsciidoctorJ and Asciidoctor.js need to develop independently of Asciidoctor, which is one motivation for the creation of a specification and TCK. The Python implementation, AsciiDoc-py <https://github.com/asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py>, is limited to legacy syntax for AsciiDoc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/215e211e-671b-4e52-a09f-cc67feb2d415n%40googlegroups.com.
