Ep2 of our Rule-breakers Podcast dropped yesterday, catch up here: youtu.be/7QyMpHi6i8c?...

In this episode, Sean talks to Peter Flynn, an expert in markup languages and typesetting.

#RuleBreakersPodcast #rulebreakers #podcast #markuplanguages #typesetting #HTML #webdevelopment #tech #STEM

New post: hVmark is a an opinionated markup language similar to markdown

hVmark is a tiny, opinionated markup language

https://md-handbook.com/blog/hvmark-opinionated-markup-language/

#markdown #markuplanguages #free #opensource #hvmark

I did not have much leisure time recently. But now I found two days to be back at the topic of #markuplanguages.

Wow, I just found a markup language implementation using the Smalltalk programming language. This is really rare theses times and I did not even recognize its syntax […]

The space of #markuplanguages is so awkward.

There are people sitting down and write a specification for so-called #markdown.

Then people sit down and see the obvious problem: fragmentation. Everyone writes parsers with different behavior due to underspecification.

So other people write a […]

While Markdown dominates, alternatives like AsciiDoc & reStructuredText offer superior features. New formats like Djot aim to fix Markdown's parsing ambiguities. The quest for better markup continues! #MarkupLanguages 5/5