* [OT] LWN article on Easybook
@ 2012-08-07 17:49 Nick Dokos
2012-08-08 12:16 ` Bastien
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From: Nick Dokos @ 2012-08-07 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: nicholas.dokos
Linux Weekly News published an article on Easybook. I know this is only
tangentially related to org, but I think there are many people here who
are interested in e-books and related topics, so I thought I'd post the
link: [fn:1][fn:2]
http://lwn.net/Articles/507653/
Nick
Footnotes:
[fn:1] LWN requires a subscription for the articles it publishes in its
weekly issues the first week they are available, but this article
was published two weeks ago and so it should be freely available
by now.
[fn:2] BTW, this is all fyi: I have no connection to Easybook, nor have
I ever used it.
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2012-08-07 17:49 [OT] LWN article on Easybook Nick Dokos
@ 2012-08-08 12:16 ` Bastien
2012-08-09 10:31 ` Aurélien Aptel
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From: Bastien @ 2012-08-08 12:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nicholas.dokos; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/507653/
Quoting the author:
"I am not a huge fan of Markdown; in my experience its not-quite-HTML
syntax requires just as much mental effort as HTML, but subsequently
requires you to process your output before reading it."
Precisely where Org has a point: ~0 markup, ~0 mental effort.
Thanks for the link!
--
Bastien
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* Re: [OT] LWN article on Easybook
2012-08-08 12:16 ` Bastien
@ 2012-08-09 10:31 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-10 7:28 ` Bastien
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From: Aurélien Aptel @ 2012-08-09 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: nicholas.dokos, emacs-orgmode
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Precisely where Org has a point: ~0 markup, ~0 mental effort.
Markdown is very similar to Org for basic outlining. I don't
understand how either one can require mental effort.
# title1
## title2
paragraph. *italic* and **bold**. [link](http://google.com).
> quote
> > nested quote
- item
- item
code block
code block
etc
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2012-08-09 10:31 ` Aurélien Aptel
@ 2012-08-10 7:28 ` Bastien
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From: Bastien @ 2012-08-10 7:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Aurélien Aptel; +Cc: nicholas.dokos, emacs-orgmode
Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel@gmail.com> writes:
> Markdown is very similar to Org for basic outlining. I don't
> understand how either one can require mental effort.
I think the author consider "memory" to result from a "mental
effort". Which is debatable -- but that you have to memorise
Markdown markup more than Org's one is quite true to me, as
Emacs _is_ already the memory for Org's markup.
I'm off now with the OT :)
--
Bastien
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