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Comment · 1 month ago
I had an unreleased version of this project running `groff`-only for quite some time.

After using it for 25 or so applications, I got the feeling that having markdown as the "source of truth" was slightly easier for reading, editing, and diffing different versions. I’ve been using it with Markdown as a base and I’m happy with the results.

To me, Markdown wins on ergonomics: easier to visually scan, no escaping of typographical marks (the `\-` hyphen), and syntax highlighting in every editor for bold/italics/etc,

I do concede that raw `roff`'s tend to produce better "one-per-line" diffing on what would otherwise be inlined paragraphs. But that seems somewhat minor to me.

Also, I invite more advanced `roff` users to show me the error on my ways regarding my above reasoning.

Comment · 2 months ago
I just mean that some providers do some telemetry to detect (sometimes incorrectly) bad use. I think there were recent cases where OpenClaw-related strings in the prompt produced token exhaustion on Claude Code users.

I'm just saying that standard usage would produce a somewhat repetitive spawning of subagents which get prompts with a consistent formatting, and it's not entirely impossible that that plus large volume of use might trigger some detection somewhere.

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