Marc Chantreux wrote on Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 07:56:03PM +0100: > can you explain us what's so wrong with keeping > simple things simple the way markdown allows us?
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170304230520 The following presentation also contains a few related remarks on pages 32-34, especially on page 33: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan18-mandoc.pdf Nothing is wrong with trying to make things simple for users, quite to the contrary. But that is not an excuse for delivering solutions that are technically abominable. When a language is technically as ill-designed as markdown is, the multitude of resulting traps actually makes it very hard to use, *not* easy at all. Yours, Ingo $ mandoc -mdoc -T ascii .Bl -bullet -compact .It Cynthia .It Werner .It Kristaps .El ^D UNTITLED LOCAL UNTITLED o Cynthia o Werner o Kristaps November 6, 2019
