/tech/ - Technology★

>>903751 (OP)

Imagine how much more Richard Stallman could have done had he not pissed his life away answering every troll email.

>>903756

Apparently he did that guy's mother. Seriously though, looking at what he put in the email is extremely unremarkable.

>>903751 (OP)

any text editor + pandoc

Markdown is basically LaTex for the dumb?

>>903751 (OP)

I presume the troll edited the text.

Adding that bit about mother was pointless and dumb and I am pretty sure that RMS did not actually do this.

>>903768

>Markdown

is basically a bicycle (when you need to grab a beer ~1 km from you) and your other choice is LaTeX which is a muscle car which you would need to re-fuel and change oil before you can drive it.

I mean using it for trivial shit without formulas, custom fonts or graphs or more advanced stuff is total overkill.

>>903777

You deserve these numbers.

>>903777

>LaTeX which is a muscle car which you would need to re-fuel and change oil before you can drive it

It's actually enough to change the oil and configure it before every big tour. You can also save that configuration, so you only have to do it once.

I even use LaTeX for letters. Once it's set up, it's really not more work than an office suite - less in fact, so your analogy makes it look way worse than necessary.

If you want to keep information for more than one week, or make it look clean and nice to read, LaTeX is rarely overkill.

>>903776

I bet you're fun at parties

>>903842

I usually boycott parties actually. But why do you think so?

>>903751 (OP)

> So are there any actually good markdown editors, or should I just learn Vim?

Why do you even need a Markdown editor? It's just regular plain text. And yes, you should learn Vim (actually Neovim), then you'll have a text editor that can be used for any language, not just Markdown. If you want live previews there is probably a plugin that render the HTML in a browser and refreshes the page.

>>903768

LaTeX fails at being a 100% semantic format. Even something simple as ending a sentence with a math formula requires you to concerned youself with presentation. Additionally, LaTeX is intended for print or PDF, if you want to convert your document to HTML or some other format it gets messy. Markdown is good for being a high-level markup format that can be converted to lower-level documents. (reStructuredText is still better at that though)

https://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/

>>904094

Latex is all about presentation, not semantics. If you're concerned about semantics, you should encode your document in a code that is concerned with semantics such as HTML.

EDIT WITH EMACS