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Re: Show HN: Markdown as web page/site

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org-mode already has this. Unfortunately, people seem to continue to use the inferior version of org known as Markdown. It is somewhat like how pdf overtook the superior format djvu.

yes. markdown is html as org-mode, which suitable for web content. web page normally has some add-on components, e.g. header, menu, theme, this is a try to handle them within markdown.

Re: Show HN: Markdown as web page/site

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I am hesitant to give it a try. Mostly use sphinx and .rst - docusaurus looks nice but also overengineered. Is it a lot to set up or is it just markdown all the way and works out of the box?

It only takes a few minutes to set it up. I use it for my blog, very happy with it.

glad to know that.

Re: Show HN: Markdown as web page/site

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post #7

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I am hesitant to give it a try. Mostly use sphinx and .rst - docusaurus looks nice but also overengineered. Is it a lot to set up or is it just markdown all the way and works out of the box?

It only takes a few minutes to set it up. I use it for my blog, very happy with it.

It really looks great. I like your book section - I wonder why we read the same books. HN recommendations maybe; will look into the ones I didn't read. Thanks for sharing

Re: Show HN: Markdown as web page/site

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org-mode already has this. Unfortunately, people seem to continue to use the inferior version of org known as Markdown. It is somewhat like how pdf overtook the superior format djvu.

I agree that Markdown is probably an inferior markup format compared to org but serious usage of org is tied to Emacs. Moreover, Markdown (or CommonMark) has an extremely healthy ecosystem and a lot of tools that make life easier, unlike org mode. The most popular static site generators also use Markdown and RST.

Unless using Emacs becomes a user friendly beginner's choice (which it isn't, and that's fine) or Org is able to distinguish itself in isolation from Emacs, I don't see org being widely used anytime soon. If org gains first class support in editors like neovim, vscode and tools like pandoc, mdcat etc, I could see myself using it.

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