5 Jun
2024
5 Jun
'24
6:13 a.m.
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> writes:
What do people think of the newer markup languages
like Markdown
or ASCII
Doctor? They seem more approachable than SGML or docbook, and a
bit easier
to understand, though with less control, than troff, LaTeX or
TeX.
Speaking as someone who had to fight Markdown several years ago,
when trying to write a converter from Markdown, and who found that
programming language library authors generally seemed to assume
you'd only ever want to convert to HTML ("No, we won't expose the
parse tree"), this old critique by Ingo Schwarze strongly
resonates with me:
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170304230520
Alexis.