diff --git a/in/article/perfect-markup.md b/in/article/perfect-markup.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c5f90f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/in/article/perfect-markup.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Treatise on My Perfect Lightweight Markup Language + +## It would have... +- org-mode style inline syntax. +- with the ease of HTML hackery of textile. +- with the compiled language support that Markdown offers. + +org-mode's inline attributes map nearly 1:1 with how I personally hack in formatting in plain text, you have `__underscores__` that look like *underlines*, +`//italics//` that look like *italics*, and `**bold**` that actually looks like **bold**. I want a LML that has nearly all the same features that you'd find on +your common or garden word-processor, and with how often I refer to D&D 5e books, I want actual, *implemented* description lists. org-mode is absolutely +perfect for this, but it's nearly entirely confined to the single text editor it was created in. Markdown has amazing support, but as a general shorthand +for HTML, it feels sorely lacking. Textile makes up for it's shortcomings, but it suffers from a lesser problem that also plagues org-mode's development, +and it's syntax can feel woefully clunky at points, that being said, it has the absolute best numbered list syntax out of all of the above mentioned LMLs.