Nice work but if I have to know LaTeX syntax, why am I not writing in LaTeX?
Same reason that LyX exists: LaTeX has a very steep learning curve, and is more intrusive than these alternatives.
Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents
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#12So they basically extended MD to do many of the things AsciiDoc does?
Though I like the reveal.js editor that looks clean and simple enough. Nowadays the old online editor seems PowerPoint (and that's not a compliment).
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#14Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free enviro…
I'm with you on that. Even if I'm typing a long response in a web form I often write it in Vim and paste it onto the form.
I created a documentation CMS that functions as a Git repository allowing you to make the choice. The web editor is quite nice but power users will always prefer a proper editor.
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#15Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free enviro…
> Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days?
This. I hate this trend, I even systematically use mpv/youtube-dl to watch videos out of the browser.
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#16Some of the links on the page are broken. The presentation example is 404 and the HTML example for latex gets redirected to the author's profile page.
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#17Recommend Marp if you would like to make presentations using markdown.
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#18Nice work but if I have to know LaTeX syntax, why am I not writing in LaTeX?
Because setting up an environment where you can compile LaTeX - including common packages/classes - can be difficult.
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#19how can I install this? npm install -g madoko gave me a command line but nothing more, no installation instructions are found yet. would like to try it locally.
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#20This is why I'm always a bit wary of using Markdown for technical documents, Markdown is just too simple and you end up having to add on all these non-standard extensions to make it halfway usable. Add on to that the fact that Markdown isn't formally specified and has a bunch of ambiguities in what is specified, and I just feel like it's more trouble than it's worth.
Maybe I'm being unfair, this project does look very well done (the LaTeX integration in particular looks much better than most Markdown flavour's manage), I just don't really see what it improves on over something like AsciiDoc.