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When you write your academic papers in Word (aussie.zone)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the most reachable thing. Markdown feels like a toy for many (not me) and people outside of academia look at you kinkily if you suggest latex and bibtex.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's the most reachable thing. Markdown feels like a toy for many (not me)

Oh yeah. Markdown. While it does have a place, the limitations on top of my head as to why I wouldn't use it in bigger projects:

  1. There is no standard in that sense, but multiple dialects / flavors
  2. No support for stuff you might want, e.g. alphabetical ordered lists.

It's fine for when you know what output you produce, like for Lemmy or in a wiki or whatever. But once you want more control, you lack options or need to rely on non-"standard" (is there was one) solutions to somehow achieve it.

I think, as an easy, yet powerful solution, AsciiDoc is better-suited.