I just found a beautiful article on the rise of Markdown in our digital communication. As we shift away from formats like .docx, Markdown’s minimalistic approach helps us focus on clarity and our core ideas—especially in times of AI.
I highly recommend giving it a read!
Recently I've been making some updates and improvements to Hike, my #markdown viewer for the #terminal. I've now also started working on some proper documentation for it: https://blog.davep.org/hike/
Does anyone know if there is a #markdown editor with a good outline mode? Lots of em have a way to navigate an outline or collapse headings, but haven't seen anything with native markdown support that makes the thing you are editing *look* like an indented outline while editing. Even something like Word's crappy outline support would be an improvement. @davew do you have any suggestions? IIRC you've been on top of this space for decades.
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2025/04/limits-of-swift-markdown-customization/
New post of epic length: limits of #Swift #Markdown customizations
Necessary edit:
"Users in the United States are unable to view this content due to #Markdown"
Why people insist on thinking they have something to say merely because of fancy formatting continues to escape me
@kschroder I've never actually used SVG before - was vaguely aware it was able to be in-lined in HTML and went from "wait, those diagrams in GitHub #markdown are SVG aren't they?" to "My mardown supports inline expansion of named stuff from yaml frames (and the markdown is contained in the frame and can reference its own frame)" to "how to make SVG from plot?" to "MatPlot does that" to "my system does plots?! Really? It just does that?" in all of 10 minutes.
@amoroso My thoughts:
- They mix up Markdown with the general term lightweight #markup language (as if #Markdown is the only #LML syntax)
- They ignore all other markup syntax examples such as (La)TeX, HTML, ...
- great screenshots of Word for DOS upwards 
- the title should be "#WYSIWYG vs. LML" (instead of the Word vs. Markdown story)
- no mentioning of other LML examples
Well it looks, as if we're settling for a mediocre standard again.
Related: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
@ellane @jeffbronks @pauby @publicvoit
I have alluded to the problems with #markdown across various posts in this thread. For an overview of the severe limitations of markdown, and the issues with markdown as a proxy for #HTML, check out this October 2014 blog post by Adam Hyde.
https://www.adamhyde.net/whats-wrong-with-markdown/
(continues)
Grr... I just realized I can support definitions lists in #markdown too. I mean Yay! I can support definition lists... But that means more time tweaking more stuff in the #html header to define a new damn thing's appearance to deal with.
But then I'm done. Except for implementing and documenting in-line block-quote expansion of uri linked content.... but that's just a mod to non-block quoted inline expansion long finished.
I wasn't expecting days of thinking about fonts and backgrounds.
The slow but steady rise of Markdown seen through the lens of the developers of iA Writer.
https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish
WooooHoooo!!!!
I've been testing and fixing and testing and fixing #markdown rendering today.
I've now got an #HTML header I'm happy with, complete with obsessively tweaked code blocks and block quotes.
And #MathJax Finally Works!!!!
Lovely typeset equations (after much frustration).
Plus tables that look like tables, footnotes that footnote, and hypothetically tables of content that will be content to function (yet to test).
Way too much thinking about #typography for one day.
@reichenstein I don’t agree with all of this, but I strongly agree with the spirit.
Being pedantic and old: a hashtag is a word preceded by a hash symbol. Like #markdown. The octothorp character, #, is often called the hash symbol (and also the ‘pound’ symbol, in the US of A). It introduces a hashtag, but is not itself a hashtag.
But as I say, that is slightly pedantic., and you may not care. And in 20 years I’ll be wrong about this.
@thomas Nutze gerade mal die Wartezeit beim Frittenfön und zu faul auf englisch zu schreiben.
Mein Blog ist mit #hugo gemacht, was ja auch #markdown habe möchte.
Ich nutze da seit längerem schon Visual Studio Code #vscode. Das hat einen Preview und kann gleich noch #git. Ob es für z. B. Mairmaid-Markdown nativ unterstützt oder ich nen Plugin installiert habe, weiß ich gerade nicht auswendig. Für toml kann ich ein Plugin empfehlen. (1/3)
I'm looking for a Markdown editor that I can use to write my blog posts. It should be nice to look at, of course support Markdown (and possibly dialects of it), offer a preview and otherwise just work well.
Linux support is necessary and it would be nice if it wasn't another Electron app.
Maybe one of you has a recommendation.
#Markdown usage question:
is there any reason why people put *inline* code between triple backticks when single backticks would suffice?
I see that a lot on github, and my syntax highlighting doesn't like it.
Tip of the day: Many people use #Markdown documents, citing the ability to make global edits to the formatting. In #DEVONthink, similar global edits in the formatting are possible in rich text documents as well. Here is, how that works. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240521-formatting-rich-text
