I'm probably the only person writing a book with a text editor in markdown.
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Nope. I wrote / am writing a textbook for the two-semester Principles of Economics sequence using markdown. Currently using it for my classes and plan to release the next draft of the micro half as an OER text at the end of the summer.
Also working on a Bitcoin book, but that's more back-burner right now. ~100 page draft.
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Why not fenced code blocks in the screenshot above?
Looked weird to me in epub conversion check. I adopted a simpler format
Also trying to evangelize markdown to my fellow professors. Here are some slides from a presentation I gave last year at a conference on open educational resources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vKWeaW6lFWo3wDpu7jF4iAav0GMQHCMz/view?usp=drivesdk
That's awesome! Although you didn't mention the reason that I use markdown. It's future proof. I have in the past lost notes due to the format no longer being supported. Plain text will always survive and markdown is just funny looking text if it isn't supported.
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You're not. I write using novelWriter, a Free Software markdown-like editor designed for fiction.
I'm surprised that you decided to take this route, as I've never thought of that.
idk why i feel like this is how nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc writes
nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetk9uq3jamnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46z7kjtacz writes on parchment paper with a goose feather dipped in hemp tea
You could be writing a book using LaTeX or [g|n|t]roff, both of which has been done and as the standard for decades.
What text editor do you use?
why not using escape backticks for code blocks? If your renderer supports it, you could also have nice syntax colouring for shell commands