The Markdown Mindset
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The Markdown Mindset
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Re: The Markdown Mindset
#2I have also moved to markdown for nearly everything, using pandoc much of the time for output to HTML or PDF. It handles a few things (like citations) a bit better than multi-markdown, although I find multi-markdown tables to be more convenient.
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#3My only problem is that I have no way to do easy footnoting. I had to add my own special HTML code at the bottom of the page, manually verify the link, and so on. Too much work.
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#4I use Markdown everywhere. Including places that don't even support it. My goal is to use it so much that it just makes sense for web-developers to implement it everywhere. Ideally replacing BBCode and such for forums.
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#5The only quibble I have with Markdown is that it shows its web-oriented origins by making it difficult to insert page breaks. That's largely the reason I still use LaTeX for a lot of things. Other than that, though, I fully agree with the author. Plain text is great because 1) it'll always be readable and 2) it forces you to focus on the writing first and the formatting second.
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#6If you like markdown you will LOVE using pandoc. I can't stress how wonderful things have been since I moved to pandoc.
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#7My only problem is that I have no way to do easy footnoting. I had to add my own special HTML code at the bottom of the page, manually verify the link, and so on. Too much work.
Pandoc extension for footnotes in markdown:
Here is a footnote reference,[^1] and another.[^longnote]
[^1]: Here is the footnote.
[^longnote]: Here's one with multiple blocks.
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#8I like markdown. I dislike the use of brackets () to delimit links. I would have preferred angle brackets for links.
Brackets are reserved delimiters in RFC3986 (etc) whereas angle brackets are recommended for delimiting URIs.
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#9The only quibble I have with Markdown is that it shows its web-oriented origins by making it difficult to insert page breaks. That's largely the reason I still use LaTeX for a lot of things. Other than that, though, I fully agree with the author. Plain text is great because 1) it'll always be readable and 2) it forces you to focus on the writing first and the formatting second.
In pandoc you can just use `\newpage`. This will create a page break in LaTeX/PDF output but be ignored in other formats, such as HTML.
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#10My only problem is that I have no way to do easy footnoting. I had to add my own special HTML code at the bottom of the page, manually verify the link, and so on. Too much work.
FYI MultiMarkdown by Fletcher Penney adds footnotes to standard Markdown, see http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/