[TUHS] Re: Proliferation of book print styles

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:

> What do people think of the newer markup languages like Markdown 
> or ASCII
> Doctor? They seem more approachable than SGML or docbook, and a 
> bit easier
> to understand, though with less control, than troff, LaTeX or 
> TeX.

Speaking as someone who had to fight Markdown several years ago, 
when trying to write a converter from Markdown, and who found that 
programming language library authors generally seemed to assume 
you'd only ever want to convert to HTML ("No, we won't expose the 
parse tree"), this old critique by Ingo Schwarze strongly 
resonates with me:

  https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170304230520


Alexis.