From: ec1828@somewhere.edu
candycanearter07
writes:
> Ethan Carter wrote at 17:03 this Saturday (GMT):
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes:
>>
>>> On 18 Apr 2025 17:16:15 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Of course there's Markdown and Latex, but they aren't word processing.
>>>
>>> After all the years of WYSIWYG being in fashion, people are
>>> (re)discovering the benefits of going back to some kind of markup notation
>>> on top of plain text.
>>
>> Well observed.
>
>
> I always prefered markdown style, it feels nicer to type with and
> there's no way to mess up the formatting in a unreversable way. Plus, it
> being plaintext makes it so much esaier to work with.
Of course. But the industry loves to look down on people and claim they
can't learn a thing.
There's a paper by Leslie Lamport that says that a document should be
/logically/ structured. That's paper 76 on his list on his homepage.
Although he seems more concerned with mathematical papers, most of the
ideas surely apply to everything else.
--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
``Document Production: Visual or Logical?'' Notices of the American
Mathematical Society (June 1987), 621-624.
``Richard Palais ran a column on mathematical typesetting in the AMS
Notices, and he invited me to be guest columnist. This is what I
wrote--a short exposition of my ideas about producing mathematical
documents.''
--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
Source:
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/document-production.pdf
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/document-production.ps.Z
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/document-production.ps
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