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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
▻https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetishcc @spip
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Not everybody wants to learn. Microsoft Office works in an office where you pretend to work until you can finally go home. There is no other app that can make you look so busy and serious doing nothing and saying nothing as PowerPoint. It’s a pro tool for creating bullshit.
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Critique de cet article : ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1111942
Naturally, the team of an application that makes money with a Markdown editor, can be assumed to be biased. I do share their sentiment that proprietary formats, and Microsoft Word especially, should be a thing of the past, and that Markdown offers undeniable benefits for professional writers.
However, I believe the article misses the broader societal developments that have happened over the past 20 years, and I do not share their optimism. Again, I do believe this to be caused by bias, but I also think it is great to reflect upon my own stance towards Markdown, too, now that I have been in the game for about a decade, too. In the following, I will make the case that Markdown’s continued success is inhibited by four blockers.
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