Re: djot - a new light markup language

["Lloyd R. prentice" <lloyd-l7gIAb2iU4jcM+WK4BI3xw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

Can’t speak up for Jon, but I’m much interested in a markdown variant that meets the needs of book publishers, particularly self-publishers.  The LaTeX markdown package is a good start. But in my naive view it needs a cleaner bridge to the full expressive power of LaTeX—something like the bridge between HTML and CSS.

The basic tags of extended Pandoc markdown go far. But it would be productive to somehow simply mark a block of copy and apply an arbitrary LaTeX package or snippet. This can be done with the LaTeX markdown package at the cost of dropping down into plain TeX which is much harder to learn than CSS and likely far beyond the skill set of most self-publishers.

Perhaps djot holds this potential, but I don’t yet understand it well enough to see how.

All the best,

LRP

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> On Jul 18, 2022, at 12:24 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Jon, I was wondering if you could speak to how you'd like to see markdown variants progress, especially since you are now behind three of them! 🙂
> 
> - CommonMark: a best attempt at formalizing the ambiguities of legacy markdown; stable (no more features); you recommend new efforts adopt djot or pandoc-markdown.
> - djot: simpler to implement and likely to see easily implementable features.
> - pandoc-markdown: CommonMark with powerful extensions (e.g., bibliography).
> 
> 
> On 22-07-18 12:08, John MacFarlane wrote:
>> If I did include something as standard syntax, I'd be inclined not to make it YAML, which is too complicated, but maybe a YAML subset.
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