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Ask Slashdot: Do You Use Markdown and Pandoc? 204

BartlebyScrivener writes "I am a author, screenwriter, law prof, and a hobbyist programmer. I love MacVim and write almost everything in it: Exams, novels, even screenplays now that Fountain is available. I use LaTeX and WordPress and so on, but several years ago I discovered Markdown and the wonderful Pandoc. I searched Slashdot expecting to find lively discussions of both Markdown and Pandoc, but found nothing. Do Slashdotters look down their noses at these tools and do their work in HTML and LaTeX? I can't imagine computer geeks using Word instead of their favorite text editors. If not Markdown and Pandoc, what tools do Slashdotters use when they create documents that probably need to be distributed in more than one format: HTML, PDF, EPUB or perhaps even docx?" And then there's DocBook, LyX, and a host of other markup languages. What do you use, in what context?

Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 1) 463

I disagree. The article is explicitly about people being unhappy with the kindle and returning, it uses consumer reviews to prove this, yes it mentions specific flaws, however that is not the basis of their argument, their argument is about users being overall unhappy and returning it, something facts don't support. I summed up my view better in a comment below: The article looks at a few individual reviews on amazon's website, to support its claim that consumers are unhappy with the device, however overall if you look at the average of these ratings they are on par with the iPad. And the statement that "some of the early adopters are unhappy" is relatively useless as it could be applied to the iPad or any other device and still be true. Where is the substance to this argument?

Comment Facts don't support articles argument (Score 2) 463

The article looks at a few individual reviews on amazon's website, to support its claim that consumers are unhappy with the device, however overall if you look at the average of these ratings they are on par with the iPad. And the statement that "some of the early adopters are unhappy" is relatively useless as it could be applied to the iPad or any other device and still be true. Where is the substance to this argument?

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