Markdown solves the problem "make the input easy" The problem(s) I want to solve are "make the output beautiful" and "make the output programmatically" when this makes sence
TW seems a pretty good compromise at these - For beautiful output I'd have to turn TW in LaTeX of something - but I'll cross one bridge at a time. Cheers /Joe On Monday, 12 March 2018 11:57:39 UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > One consequence of Markdown and other markups is its kinda, inadvertently, > supporting an incorrect idea about writing and the nature of most > documents. > > The point is that most of them *assume that we need to ADD EXPLICIT > MARKUP in order to render texts correctly*. The underlying idea is that > "all documents are equally unstructured" so need markup help. > > That is COMPLETELY INCORRECT. > > Most documents folk write are within a TYPE that is already structured > according to conventions. Parsers, given the correct document TYPE, can > usually render a document correctly WITHOUT explicit markup. Markup ONLY > being needed to force compliance when a section of text breaks the standard > layout of the type. > > A very good example of this is screenplays. Their plain text typed layout > already mostly determines how (IMPLICITLY) they should be "marked up" for > render. The Fountain Syntax <https://fountain.io/syntax> for marking up > screenplays is perhaps the best public example of a brilliant "Minimalist > Markup"--mostly you need to add nothing explicit because the work is done > simply by analysing the layout of the document. > > Other examples would be most novels, much poetry and sophisticated legal > documents. > > These kinds of cases we should be able to support directly in TW quite > easily, I think. > > Thoughts > Josiah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b85141b7-55d7-4918-bc25-6fc1fcc8fc96%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
