Grr... I just realized I can support definitions lists in #markdown too. I mean Yay! I can support definition lists... But that means more time tweaking more stuff in the #html header to define a new damn thing's appearance to deal with.

But then I'm done. Except for implementing and documenting in-line block-quote expansion of uri linked content.... but that's just a mod to non-block quoted inline expansion long finished.

I wasn't expecting days of thinking about fonts and backgrounds.

The slow but steady rise of Markdown seen through the lens of the developers of iA Writer.

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

WooooHoooo!!!!

I've been testing and fixing and testing and fixing #markdown rendering today.

I've now got an #HTML header I'm happy with, complete with obsessively tweaked code blocks and block quotes.

And #MathJax Finally Works!!!!

Lovely typeset equations (after much frustration).

Plus tables that look like tables, footnotes that footnote, and hypothetically tables of content that will be content to function (yet to test).

Way too much thinking about #typography for one day.

I'm looking for a Markdown editor that I can use to write my blog posts. It should be nice to look at, of course support Markdown (and possibly dialects of it), offer a preview and otherwise just work well.

Linux support is necessary and it would be nice if it wasn't another Electron app.

Maybe one of you has a recommendation.

Reject proprietary formats,
Embrace markdown

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish
#markdown #obsidian

This love letter to #Markdown is marvelous.

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish#fnref-30857-threeways

Tip of the day: Many people use #Markdown documents, citing the ability to make global edits to the formatting. In #DEVONthink, similar global edits in the formatting are possible in rich text documents as well. Here is, how that works. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240521-formatting-rich-text

Nuevo Blog programado desde 0 con quasar.dev https://myblog.clonbg.es/nuevo-blog-programado-desde-0-con-quasar-dev/ #Blog #Markdown https://clonbg.es

Bin auf der Suche danach, wie man in #Markdown gendern kann, auf diesen Artikel gestoßen: https://denktmit.de/blog/2021-06-07-gendern-in-markup/

He hecho una prueba desde #Moshidon para escribir con #Markdown y no ha funcionado. ¿Sabéis si masto.es admite markdown? ¿Será que soy una patana y he hecho algo mal?

EDIT: Ya me han dicho que la instancia no lo admite, gracias!

ReEDIT: Ya me han dicho que Mastodon no lo admite xD

I like how @ia thinks:

Why are we sending our kids to a school that looks like a #Microsoft ad? To prepare them for the future. Does equipping children with Office tools truly serve this purpose or does it serve the purpose of cementing a life in the products of a software monopolist?

I ask myself the same question. This is a great read, and I look forward to the other 5/6ths @reichenstein:

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

Remember folks: "#Markdown is subversive."

"Word has layout capabilities, it’s widely understood and marketed as a word processor. Technically, it is geard towards formatting and layouting. And yet, professional journalists, professors, and even poets that don’t care much about fonts, dropcaps and margins, were forced to using it. Not because it’s the best app for writing. Because the university, the editor in chief, the book publisher offers and expects the `.docx` format." #Markdown https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

From #CTAN:

Vít Starý Novotný submitted an update to the markdown package.

Version: 3.11.1-0-gb7315ecf 2025-03-30
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/markdown

You can also use "Git it write" plugin to blog in #WordPress from the comfort of your favorite desktop IDE

Write your posts in #markdown format, push it to a #Github repository and voila your post is published in your website

More information - https://wordpress.org/plugins/git-it-write/

Nextcloud:

Schon bemerkt? Seit der vorletzten Version werden Vorschau-Popups bei Links in Markdown-Dateien angezeigt (gilt auch für Links zu Materialien innerhalb der Nextcloud)

Package Manager for Markdown

I'm working on a project that is intended to encourage folk to make markdown text files which can be bundled together in different bundles of text files using a package manager.

Question for coders; Which package manager would you suggest I use?

Main criterias (in order) are:

1. Easy for someone with basic command line skills to edit the file and update version numbers and add additional packages.

2. All being equal, more commonly and easy to setup is preferred.

#Markdown #CommonMark #PackageManager #Programming #Dev
#NPM #RubyGems #Cargo #PickingAMastodonInstance
#Ruby #Python #Rust #Javascript #NodeJs #Lisp #CommonGuide

# #Pachli 2.11.0 is released

## New features include

- Support translation throughout the app
- Experimental Markdown support
- Content filters default to all contexts

## Fixes include:

- Toot button accessibility
- Grammar fixes
- Report UI updates
- Content filter updates
- Fewer crashes

## Updated translations

- Finnish, Indonesian, Irish, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

More details at https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/03/31/2.11.0-release.html.