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sixtyjlast Tuesday at 12:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Gruber and Schwarz knew that in simplicity is a beauty.

Basic markdown format is good enough.

For specific cases, it depends what is the outcome - html, pdf…

But hell are binary formats that are used for page layout - vendor lock for centuries. Backward compatibility? Forget about it.

From this point of view people should stick to text based formats. Markdown, LaTex, Typst… you name it. Just use it :)


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maclong9last Tuesday at 4:08 PM

For me the only addition to markdown I usually enjoy is mathematical typesetting like on GitHub using the inline $$ syntax or the code blocks with the language set to `math`