Re: [O] [OT] LWN article on Easybook

2012-08-10 Thread Bastien
Aurélien Aptel writes: > Markdown is very similar to Org for basic outlining. I don't > understand how either one can require mental effort. I think the author consider "memory" to result from a "mental effort". Which is debatable -- but that you have to memorise Markdown markup more than Org'

Re: [O] [OT] LWN article on Easybook

2012-08-09 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Bastien wrote: > Precisely where Org has a point: ~0 markup, ~0 mental effort. Markdown is very similar to Org for basic outlining. I don't understand how either one can require mental effort. # title1 ## title2 paragraph. *italic* and **bold**. [link](http://goo

Re: [O] [OT] LWN article on Easybook

2012-08-08 Thread Bastien
Nick Dokos writes: > http://lwn.net/Articles/507653/ Quoting the author: "I am not a huge fan of Markdown; in my experience its not-quite-HTML syntax requires just as much mental effort as HTML, but subsequently requires you to process your output before reading it." Precisely where Org

[O] [OT] LWN article on Easybook

2012-08-07 Thread Nick Dokos
Linux Weekly News published an article on Easybook. I know this is only tangentially related to org, but I think there are many people here who are interested in e-books and related topics, so I thought I'd post the link: [fn:1][fn:2] http://lwn.net/Articles/507653/ Nick Footnotes: [fn:1] LWN