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Re: markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community Book

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jul 31, 2008, 15:09 UTC
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<20080731150958.GO32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
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<4891CD34.1070308@lyx.org>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:33:24PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org> wrote:
> I just had a look at the user manual and, well unless you have a special 
> emacs mode or whatever that can automate the markup tag insertion, I wonder 
> how can anybody think that writing with this markup language is easier than 
> within LyX, really (genuine question, not sarcasm).

People usually find it easy to contribute to a wiki, due to its easy markup language.

asciidoc's markup is configurable, but the default one is really similar to a wiki syntax, so at the end, people find it easy, including myself.

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