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Okay, I have a bunch of things to say/rant on this.

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Maggie

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@Mappletons

· Apr 23

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Expect you've already read it, but dropping the ref for others. @kmelve wrote up a good piece on markdown earlier this year: smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/though

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Appreciate your thoughts on this. Interop is obviously one of the strongest arguments for markdown. Have you considered it from the perspective of a non-dev / non-technical user? Who has no idea what markdown is and just wants to create rich, visual docs without strange syntax?

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Eg. The “I am an editor of text, and I find it friendly” is from the perspective of someone very comfortable in code and syntax. For many people WYSIWYG interfaces with rich options for formatting and data types (tables, video, etc) w/o any html tags or syntax is friendlier.

Taylor Hadden

@Cptn_ChillPill

Apr 23

100%, I am the exception. It’s just that the things that make it easier for non technical people make it more annoying, more fricious for me.

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Keep in mind that most extensions done by so called Tft recently are not in markdown: Wikilinks, queries, /codes, blockref etc So the portability of the markdown describe in the article is marginally applicable to the one used in Tft. Lots of beliefs, not enough evidence

Bruno Winck

@brunowinck

Apr 23

" the perspective of a non-dev / non-technical user ... just wants to create rich, visual docs without strange syntax" There was a thing, 30 years ago, called Word on Windows, used by millions of people. Allowed to do beautiful pages with zero coding knowledge, and wysiwyg :)

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