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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

Should I dare to do a "why #Markdown is one of the worst lightweight markup syntax languages there is"-session at a UX/UI-dominant #barcamp? 😜

C'mon, do push me over that cliff! 😆

Background: karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmod 👉 it's related but would be a different focus since I won't push #orgdown that much - people can be happier with other LMLs as well as long as it's not the #MD hell. (Sneak preview: I'm writing a long article on all the MD issues in order to explain it once and for all since the Mastodon discussions are really annoying to me.)

public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for TextOrg Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
#LML#AsciiDoc#rSt
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0xKaishakunin

Ich habe eine neue Artikel-Reihe gestartet: #Wissensmanagement in der #Architektur

Wie wir mit #AsciiDoc, #Git, #BibTeX und etwas #Perl komplexe Dokumente in der Architektur erstellen und vor allem wiederfinden und #Revisionen tracken.
Außerdem ein paar Punkte warum #MarkDown saugt und #kroki fetzt

kaishakunin.com/posts/architek

www.kaishakunin.comStefan Schumachers persönliche WebseitePersönliche Web-Seite von Stefan Schumacher
#togaf#sabsa#semver
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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

@ajlewis2 @ellane @feralthoughts @hbowie @reichenstein

Just for clarification: same holds true for any other markup supported by pandoc, not just #Markdown.

However, if you stick with a syntax language that doesn't come with this explosion of flavors, you have less issues converting your data - in some cases you don't even have to convert at all any more.

The issue with Markdown is that its original form defined a small minimum of elements and each tool defined its own potentially incompatible extensions. With other #LML, the "original" or its standard defines the maximum set of elements and therefore, there is no need for "flavors" and no data loss or conversion effort.

HTH

#AsciiDoc#orgmode#orgdown
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FLOX Advocate

PLUG's topic tonight is Using AsciiDoc to Create Presentations

The meeting is online in a #BigBlueButton instance starting at 19:00 AZ time ( UTC -7 ), in about 30 minutes

Online, so join from where ever you are :)

gettogether.community/events/7

The @FLOSS_Stammtisch is on Tuesday the 18th, it will meet in person at Boulders on Southern in Mesa, AZ

#PLUG #FLOSSevent #BBB #LocalGroup #VirtualMeeting #Stammtisch @PLUG #AsciiDoc

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es0mhi

@david_megginson

This opposition of org-mode vs. (LaTeX, SGML) XML in publishing is something that resonates very strongly with me - though I'm afraid it's hard for many org users to understand.

I do almost all of my daily work in org-mode, but whenever I start a writing project that needs to be published, I use XML. There are all kinds of reasons for this, some very specific to my case of academic writing, where the handling of citations, footnotes and bibliography can get very complex and specific. But I feel that in the end it comes down to something much simpler.

For decades I have been using docbook-xml for all my writing projects, starting with drafting in asciidoc (and this co-existence of asciidoc and org-mode as two "markdown" dialects still leaves me unsatisfied). The deeper reasons however seem to be that in org-mode you start designing your text from an outline. For me, this is the wrong approach, as I need to write a text as a stream-of-consciousness, adding paragraph after paragraph, and only later get to an outline. The way I'm used to using org-mode seems to make this impossible for me.

#emacs#orgmode#docbook
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The Last Psion | Alex

Moved instance, so time for a new #introduction!

I'm Alex and I have a PDA problem.

In 2018, after 16 years of using various #Psion portables, I decided to try my hand at developing hardware and software for my beloved Series 3c to help me with journalling and creative writing.

6 years and repeated sidequests later, I've ended up doing a lot of research into the SIBO/EPOC16 platform, and done my best to document it when I can. I've also nudged former developers into open sourcing their old Psion apps.

My current main projects are:

  • #PsiDrive, an #RP2040-based USB drive for SIBO SSDs.
  • Rewriting the Psion SIBO (16-bit 8086) C SDK, including updating the docs (with #AsciiDoc) and rewriting the original DOS tools as FOSS apps. I'm currently using #FreePascal to create a drop-in replacement for #CTRAN, the Psion OO C preprocessor. (I want to eventually write a new compiler targeting EPOC16. Eventually.)
  • Anything else that tickles my bouncy brain.

Outside of #retrocomputing, I'm your common-or-garden British nerd. I'm a Linux user - mostly Arch, but I dabble with others. I also like a bit of #HaikuOS and I'm planning on giving #FreeBSD a go very soon.

I used to be a senior computer monkey, specialising in on-prem SME infrastructure (I lament the loss of vSphere). Now I train others to become computer monkeys (for better or worse). As a result, sometimes you'll see me wrestling with old Cisco ASAs, Ubiquiti APs, or modded kit running #OpenWrt.

Generally, I like making things do stuff, especially if it's stuff that the thing wasn't originally designed to do.

Photo of a fully constructed PsiDrive 0.0.1, including a Raspberry Pi Pico mounted on top. There is a SIBO solid state disk (SSD) plugged into the 6 SIBO-SP pins. A microUSB cable is plugged into the Pico. To the left of the PsiDrive is 128K Flash Psion SSD.
A photo of my stand at the Festival of Portable Computing (early 2024) at the Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK. On the table is a selection of Psion devices, including various SIBO/EPOC16 devices (Series 3/3a/3c/3mx, Workabout, Siena, MC400), a few EPOC32 devices (Series 5/5mx), a few PsiDrive boards, many SIBO SSDs, some boxed software. There is also an Amstrad NC100, a Microwriter MW4, an Acer netbook and a 2009 iMac. The Acer and iMac are running Haiku. The iMac is running the MAME-based Psion SIBO emulator.
A screenshot of a KDE Plasma desktop, running on Arch Linux. The main window in the background is Konsole running an SSH session to a Haiku box, which is running tmux. In the foreground is a Remmina window, connected a VNC session on the Haiku box. On the Haiku desktop, three copies of the MAME-based Psion emulator are running - a Series 3, a Siena and a Series 3mx. The 3mx is running the game "Horace In THe Mystic Woods."
A screenshot of KDE Plasma running on Arch Linux. The background window is Kitty running tmux. In the main tmux pane is NeoVim showing some CTRAN-ng source code, written in Object Pascal. In the smaller pane on the right is CTRAN-ng's help output. In the foreground is a copy of DOSBox Staging, also showing CTRAN-ng's help output. Both have been compiled with Free Pascal.
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Santiago Lema :amiga:

Speaking of #MarxDawn I know there are extensions to read #ASCIIDoc in a browser ( such as github.com/asciidoctor/asciido ) but has nobody ever written a native lightweight ASCIIDoc Browser?

I find editors that export to many formats and preview but not just a simple viewer that follows link like a minimalistic browser.

So you just serve content as .adoc files via http etc.

GitHubGitHub - asciidoctor/asciidoctor-browser-extension: :white_circle: An extension for web browsers that converts AsciiDoc files to HTML using Asciidoctor.js.:white_circle: An extension for web browsers that converts AsciiDoc files to HTML using Asciidoctor.js. - asciidoctor/asciidoctor-browser-extension
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Oblomov

For historical reasons, I mostly use #Markdown for my writing, although I've started to use #AsciiDoc (through #AsciiDoctor) more and more these days.

One of the things I #amWriting is intended to be in a more “playwright” style, so I've been looking around for stuff more focused on #playwriting (for either theater or screen, I'm not picky at the moment.).

So I came across #FountainIO
fountain.io/ which is actually … pretty close to what I was thinking about.

fountain.ioFountain
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