I can’t be the only one who just prefers reading unrendered markdown over the rich text formatted version right?

>>105866867 (OP)
Well, taking your OP image as an example, I also prefer the left over the right.

>>105866867 (OP)
being this much of a contrarian should classify as a mental illness

>>105866876
If you want formatting just use LaTeX

>>105866867 (OP)
>unrendered
>text editor already formats bold, italics, and hyperlinks

>>105866887
it’s the only quick image I could find on google, you get my point

>>105866884
that's not what OP is talking about at all. you're just trying to show off your /g/ cred by mentioning latex. besides latex is bloat for most purposes

>>105866917
It is what he is talking about, why would you ever use markdown, when plaintext with some symbolic notation is easier to read.

If you need formatting for spinning up documents or pdf’s, use latex.

>>105866906
Well, can't you make your own image?

You're in the majority OP

Oh god and please stop using latex. If you want nice formatting just use anything else. Imagine taking style advice from the foss crowd.

>>105867391
>If you want nice formatting just use anything else
Like what?

>>105867436
Word
Writer
InDesign
Publisher
QuarkXPress
really the only thing uglier than latex documents is probably HTML (god bless the people trying to make html publishing tools)
The idea that latex docs look professional is a big lie perpetuated by grad students slacking off on their thesis by mucking around with table generators

>>105866938
>when plaintext with some symbolic notation is easier to read
>oh let me just add random noise to your data to make it easier to read
retard. i won't entertain you any further

>>105866867 (OP)
OP, you might like what I made, it's called Shrimple: https://qount25.dev/Shrimple
I posted it here before, some people liked, some say it's retarded, but it's useful to me.

>>105866887
That's not rendered, that's syntax highlighting.

>>105867436
Typst.

>>105866867 (OP)
>new line doesn't get displayed
I fucking hate Markdown.

>>105868206
neat, thx

>>105866867 (OP)
It's wild how much better Oxygen looked than Breeze.

>>105866867 (OP)
Try a rendering that is not a complete shit

Also the left one already has some rendering characteristics like underlining, color and bolding

Also it turns out to better than the right because the title and the structure are better highlighted by ironically, the markdown characters

>>105867436
Typst

>>105868222
>>105870337
>proprietary faggotry
nah, I’m good. I’m sticking with LaTeX

>>105868206
that's retarded

>>105870417
https://github.com/typst/typst

> I’m sticking with LaTeX
Go ahead, stick to that pile of steaming shit lol

>>105866867 (OP)
I like plain text too.

>>105870417
the typst project is (was?) funded by European grants and from the State of Germany, I find it hard to believe it's a proprietary project

Krauts are going to save typesetting for the second time in history, first Gutenberg, now Typst

>>105870717
It's not propriety, that anon is just retarded.

>>105867659
>really the only thing uglier than latex documents is probably HTML
>have a look at these XML options

>>105867659
> The idea that latex docs look professional is a big lie perpetuated by grad students slacking off on their thesis by mucking around with table generators
LaTeX docs do look remarkably good, and not being WYSIWYG and based on structured text give with a lot of pros
- easier collaboration and versioning by reusing tools from dev (code versioning and repository)
- error message should be better to understand
- recompilation makes additions (hopefully) not breaking previous state

The problem is that LaTex sucks as a tool, not what it can produce as output
And also the biggest lie of all: papers don't have to look THAT good, sacrificing too much of the time-effort when writing some shit

groff (mom, ms, or me) + eqn + graph + tbl makes documents than are more than good enough by being easier to work with and don't require 1GB of disk space
Typst is the final improvement over TEX/Latex, it just need time so people can write packages like TikZ and shit but as right now it can substitute 90% of Latex use cases

>>105871538

Just write a ascii compatible txt file instead, I prefer utf-8 myself.
http://no-html.club

I write HTML:
- has more semantic elements than Markdown's symbolic annotations permits.
- is extremely consistent in its syntax (and indentation).
Pandoc can be used to convert a HTML file to a PDF. or, just read the shit in the browser, ragged text is often nicer than justified anyway. also, you can include videos and shit.

>>105868460
Markdown won, anon. It's over.

>>105871835
https://files.catbox.moe/7820io.jpg
A very important message in these trying times.

Do any of these local solutions just format the text as you go, the unedited view bothers me and is ugly which is why I don't bother with markdown unless I have to for a readme

>>105866867 (OP)
anon in this image both text panes are formatted, please provided a more autistic example where only one has styling, so we can all laugh at you for "liking" something inherently inferior just for being a contrarian

>>105866867 (OP)
You should try out org-mode, then. It's essentially interactive markdown that automatically renders the relevant bits you'd actually want rendered (like links), while everything else pretty much remains plaintext in appearance. You can always output it to a prettier format later (like PDF or whatever) if you want.