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I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
Dormouse:
might be OK if I use text files and turn line numbers-Dormouse (May 27, 2020, 12:19 AM)
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OK so long as I use no commands, even italics. Using them seems to switch it to commonmark mode even if it later saves the file as txt. Makes sense as txt doesn't support italics so it does leave me looking ideally for an editable 'preview' mode.
Shades:
AsciiDoc
-Shades (May 26, 2020, 08:22 PM)
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Has preview + edit and edit panel options. Someone suggested adding preview alone. I'm tempted to suggest making preview editable, which would solve most of my issues.
-Dormouse (May 27, 2020, 12:19 AM)
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Good luck with that. If the responses for this functionality in AsciiDoc are anything to go by, it will be bitter disappointment for you and every one else who made such a request already.
Mostly has to do with document structuring. It is relative easy to create a preview from the text. Translating the changes in the preview back to properly structured MarkDown or AsciiDoc appears to be much more prone to errors and results in garbage. At least that was what I understood from forum posts on some obscure AsciiDoc website. I have no trouble imagining that the authors of MarkDown are of a similar mindset.
Which is a shame, as I would agree that such a feature would be good for acceptance of either MarkDown or AsciiDoc as somewhat of a replacement of WordPad in Windows. Perhaps even Word itself.
There is an open source project, called: Open Live Writer, which would be a very solid base for a MarkDown/AsciiDoc "preview editor"...
Dormouse:
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.
panzer:
Zettbox (free for now):
https://www.zettbox.com/
panzer:
Zettelkasten-like system used by Andy Matuschak:
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zhmLXArqiCMDr9Q13ViqN3hh3SmrKzjQxWAr
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6f6xgGG4NKjkA5NA1kDd46whJh2Gt5rAmfX
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z3KmNj3oKKSTJfqdfSEBzTQiCVGoC4GfK3rYW
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4Rrmh17vMBbauEGnFPTZSK3UmdsGExLRfZz1
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6bci25mVUBNFdVWSrQNKr6u7AZ1jFzfTVbMF
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