Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Man, I’ve written three novels plus assorted shorter form stories in markdown.

    There’s a learning curve, but once you get going, it’s so fluid. The problem is that when it comes time to format for release, you have to convert to something else, and not every word processor can handle markdown. It’s extra work, but worth it, imo.

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      1 year ago

      Just set up pandoc and Bob’s your uncle. It’ll convert markdown to anything. You’ll never have to open another word processor.

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        1 year ago

        Nice! Thanks for the tip!

        Edit: holy shit, how have I never run across that before? That’s a brilliant program right there.

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          1 year ago

          Pandoc + [your markdown editor of choice] is magic. Some editors even come with Pandoc as a dependency so you can export to more or less anything from the GUI. I think GhostWriter and Zettlr at least (I honestly can’t be sure, I’ve changed editors so often and now I just have some Pandoc conversion scripts in my file manager menu).