At this point I'm curious: WTF is Microsoft Word even good for? It's like the worst-in-class tool for all things word processing, page layout, typesetting, embedding other stuff into the document, and more. Why are people still torturing themselves with this garbage? Just because it's there? I mean, Wordpad is there too (though maybe not for much longer) but nobody uses that. It's also garbage but still...

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the most reachable thing. Markdown feels like a toy for many (not me) and people outside of academia look at you kinkily if you suggest latex and bibtex.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

It's the most reachable thing. Markdown feels like a toy for many (not me)

Oh yeah. Markdown. While it does have a place, the limitations on top of my head as to why I wouldn't use it in bigger projects:

There is no standard in that sense, but multiple dialects / flavors
No support for stuff you might want, e.g. alphabetical ordered lists.

It's fine for when you know what output you produce, like for Lemmy or in a wiki or whatever. But once you want more control, you lack options or need to rely on non-"standard" (is there was one) solutions to somehow achieve it.

I think, as an easy, yet powerful solution, AsciiDoc is better-suited.

load more comments (19 replies)