13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
3:28 p.m.
On 2017-04-12 7:31 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I love me
some troff, even to this day. I really really really wish that someone
had done framemaker, word, whatever, that was the GUI interface that had
troff under the covers. Why? Because you can version control the source
A bit off topic, but…
I’ve been researching modern macOS writing apps over the last few days. I was very
surprised to find that almost all of them use Markdown as their primary format — not just
for import/export, but as a storage format as well as a user interface. (Examples:
Ulysses, Scrivener, ByWord.) It seems that Markdown and text files has become the gold
standard in this particular class of app, even for folks who’d never use the command line.
Granted, not all those apps expose the documents as normal, version-controllable files,
but still, it’s pretty wild to see text formats be accepted again, at least in a narrow
class of documentation-related tools.
—John