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Comment by c-smile

Markdown/org-mode is a poor man WYSIWYG I would say.

You can easily say "this line is kind of header" but it is not human readable as it all happens inside source code editor having monospaced fonts like in this very widget I am typing the message on HN site.

Plain text blocks is plain pain in markdowns. Web platform has no concept of tabs - counting whitespaces for each line... And tables ... like 20 years ago we were doing with pseudo-graphic symbols - formatting nightmare.

That's why I've introduced "magic sequences" : https://notes.sciter.com/2017/09/09/magic-sequences-a-la-mar... - the best of two worlds - WYSIWYG but with Markdown typing twist.

parent c-smile 9 years ago

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