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What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Markdown is trash. It almost always comes in a fork that is naturally incompatible with other forks & never has the features you need for blogging or technical writing (leading to abuse of the limited features, unsemantic markup output, and/or embedding HTML which is both ugly & also ruining portability to non-HTML targets). This leaves you locked into some specific tool’s forked implementation & never looks good in other contexts. Markdown was also never the only or best option for lightweight markup at any time.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Downvotes here showing it’s controversial, but I am willing to bet these folk have never given AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, & LaTeX a spin in comparison (for ‘real world’ documentation, etc. with multiple output targets) to actually know what they are talking about 😅

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can embed LaTeX math formulas in Markdown with $x = y$ on many clients.

Let me try: $f(x) = \frac{1}{x}$.

Doesn't seem to work on Lemmy. Maybe a bug/missing feature?

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

It’s always a series of extensions nonstandardized but said to all be under the same umbrella. It would be better if these things called a spade a spade & say Markdown-like or Markdown-inspired instead of giving a false sense of compatibility.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing beats org mode syntax for markup. You don't have to use emacs, but syntactically, org is so much more convenient, consistent and easy.

https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Org mode is fine, better than Markdown, but still wouldn’t be my first choice for technical writing. I will still respect you for using it tho. 😄