On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:52:16PM +0100, pancake wrote: > Do you know ssg? Its a perl script that converts a markdown file into a > postscript slides..
I already have typesetting software. ssg's existence doesn't make markdown more useful, it just makes it slightly less useful than troff. > Theres also an awk markdown parser to html and make it work on ansi is just > plain simple (or output troff) I already know html. troff can already output html. > Markdown is human readable and easy to parse to generate various outputs, it > just needs a tool for that. Why do people keep saying something is human-readable as though I give a shit? troff source is human-readable for the set of humans who understand troff. Markdown is a pain in the ass because no two of these tools produce the same output given the same input. It was originally specified as a subset of html, and every time someone extends it they do it in a different way. If I want to have to run programs on a text file to produce another text file, I'll do one where I can predict the outcome.
