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Subject: RE: [dita-lightweight-dita] Write-the-Docs assessment of strategic Markdown directions


There is not a tool mentioned within 37 feet of that page (the discussion thread) that you would find 80% of our tech-writing customers willing or able to use to write their technical documentation. And by "our" in this case I mean XMetaL, no matter what Mark Baker may think about XML. A good tool will compensate for any sucky language.

 

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From: dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Don Day
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:50 PM
To: dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Write-the-Docs assessment of strategic Markdown directions

 

And a revealing public discussion about Eric's article, in that many pros and cons (and alternative concepts) are mentioned. For the markup geek in all of us...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11292280

On 3/15/2016 5:01 PM, Don Day wrote:

The title is click bait, but the article is a reasoned review of Markdown's potential faults and what the author feels is the strategic design imperative for semantic markup (possible considerations for direction for MDITA):
http://ericholscher.com/blog/2016/mar/15/dont-use-markdown-for-technical-docs/

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