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you like that? I can see how you might like a command line as opposed to a dumbed-down, simplistic, and intelligence-insulting GUI.

But I cannot see how you can love Markdown. A shit standard that uglifies everything it touches, instead of celebrating the beauty of typography.

There is no inconsistency between liking command line, and being demanding in terms of text layout. Just ask LaTeX.




What does markdown have to do with text layout? It basically acts like a lightweight, readable version of html. If you don't like how it renders, render it some other way.


Well, I like that the format is readable and just plain text files.

If you wrote documents in word 1.0 or WordPerfect or something, they may be lost to the world but markup could still be read by any reader.


Much as I love LaTeX, it's a programming language and not a markup format like Markdown. LaTeX is kind of a terrible exchange format for that reason.


Sometimes people want a dumbed down command line to get the best of both.




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