Re: Tinker WriterDeck

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 04:27 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:22:51 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:
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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.

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A key thing I find with plain-text-plus-markup is that it can be put into
version-control systems and managed collaboratively, just like program
source code. WYSIWYG document processors may have change tracking, but
they’re invariably pretty primitive compared to the branching and merging
capabilities of a modern VCS like Git.

That goes back to the whole "plain text* works on everything" thing, you
can grep it for a specific phrase, concatinate pieces together, use
/any/ text editor (notepad, anyone?), etc.

*unicode does mess some stuff up but generally compatibility is pretty
good, and i think theres a special code for embedding a unicode char in
md
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