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3 transclude view: (this is the feature I'm looking for) the editor resolves only transclusions but no other markdown syntax. For example the editor shows "**weather**" (unresolved) but shows "hello world" (resolved transcluded contents of B.md) instead of "{{B.md}}".-Nod5 (May 28, 2020, 06:00 AM)
*[] Read all the Andy Matuschak references from Panzer
*[] Work out sequence for evaluating text editors
*[] Check out Typora, Obsidian, Texts, HackMD and CodiMD
So how long before BBCode goes markdown? Or rather forums simply switch to markdown.-Dormouse (May 28, 2020, 07:02 AM)
Yes, quite a bit. So much so that I pay for it. I'm writing my book in it (it has a book type layout), and I thought reading this thread the autolinking feature would be nice for this system.-wraith808 (May 27, 2020, 04:54 PM)
Cool! Do you have a view on the difference between HackMD and CodiMD? AFAICT they started out as the same project, but CodiMD is a FOSS fork. Confusingly HackMD github seem to still have a (competing) CodiMD repo.
https://hackmd.io/
https://github.com/hackmdio
https://github.com/codimd
https://demo.codimd.org/features#-Nod5 (May 28, 2020, 05:47 AM)
It is inspired by Hackpad, Etherpad and similar collaborative editors. This project originated with the team at HackMD and now forked into its own organisation.
@wraith808, thanks. Are you using hackmd? Looks nice.-Nod5 (May 27, 2020, 02:36 PM)
I'm not sure about document structuring. What I do see is that the cursor position on the preview would have to be fed back to the hidden markdown document. The commands and text would always only work on the markdown document. I don't see why it couldn't work in theory but I doubt there's enough processing power on most Android machines to do it in real time. There's already a noticeable lag in preview update and adding the fro to the to would kill it.
Very nice to hear that there are other people with the same wish because it feels totally against this bit of the zeitgeist.-Dormouse (May 27, 2020, 02:00 AM)
And the sad thing is, any company who tries to build a sustainable business model can't get a foot in the door because the customers will just say (for example), "why would I pay $24 for that pizza from you when I can get it for $16 from another company [which won't be around in a few years because they're not sustainable]?"
So in the end, neither model is sustainable in practice.-Deozaan (May 19, 2020, 04:28 PM)
they just created CommonMark which is a semi-standardBut it's not a standard, and not even the most common flavour from what I've seen. And it shows that a developer can hit a problem and just add an extension to deal with it.-wraith808 (May 14, 2020, 08:23 PM)
I believe that the underlying problem is that markdown is not plain text. It's the old ram in a lambswool coat. Plain text is just text. When you start including display instructions, it stops being plain whatever symbols you use to add the instructions.
My own preference is always to keep text as text with display instructions separately.-Dormouse (May 15, 2020, 08:03 AM)
Simplified linking syntax #59
Several users requested that the syntax for linking to zettels be simplified. To that extent, Neuron now supports the following style of links:
* This is a link to a zettel: <5b963b1c>.
* It will automatically expand to the Zettel title
that is linked in the web interface.
In short, to link to a zettel whose ID is “5b963b1c”, you only need to wrap it inside angle brackets. We are not using any special syntax here; this is what is known as Autolinks in the commomark spec. Neuron simply leverages existing linking syntax to allow you to link to zettels; and the Neuron renderer can automtically fill in the zettel title, and other metadata, during rendering stage.
It does tell you that Microsoft is having a lot of trouble fixing Win10 at this time.-Arizona Hot (May 13, 2020, 10:39 AM)