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

submitted 2 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 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 2 points 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 😄