Re: Tinker WriterDesk

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
writes:

Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote at 17:03 this Saturday (GMT):

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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On 18 Apr 2025 17:16:15 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:
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Of course there's Markdown and Latex, but they aren't word processing.

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After all the years of WYSIWYG being in fashion, people are
(re)discovering the benefits of going back to some kind of markup notation
on top of plain text.

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Well observed.

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I always prefered markdown style, it feels nicer to type with and
there's no way to mess up the formatting in a unreversable way. Plus, it
being plaintext makes it so much esaier to work with.

Of course.  But the industry loves to look down on people and claim they
can't learn a thing. 

There's a paper by Leslie Lamport that says that a document should be
/logically/ structured.  That's paper 76 on his list on his homepage.
Although he seems more concerned with mathematical papers, most of the
ideas surely apply to everything else.

  --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
  ``Document Production: Visual or Logical?''  Notices of the American
  Mathematical Society (June 1987), 621-624.

  ``Richard Palais ran a column on mathematical typesetting in the AMS
  Notices, and he invited me to be guest columnist.  This is what I
  wrote--a short exposition of my ideas about producing mathematical
  documents.''
   --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

Source:
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/document-production.pdf
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/document-production.ps.Z
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/document-production.ps