Podlite

Podlite indeed looks promising, especially with its extensibility and support for Markdown. I agree that if a markup language gets too complex, using raw HTML might be more…

Wow. This is so good. For reference: It is 4 times smaller than HTML. It is 29.5 times smaller than PDF. It has a really good structure and is more readable than Markdown…

It took me a few clicks but here's an example Podlite document for anyone who likes to jump straight into examples:…

just jump in the playground: https://pod6.in/

Ouch. IMHO the reason markdown became so popular is because how simple it is, how well the syntax generally stays out of the way of the content, and its almost entire lack of…

I think you've lost the point of Markdown: it's readable as raw text. I was excited that this was an extension of markdown but now I that see it I react with horror: markdown is…

Reading through the source for the specifications was interesitng. There is a lot of good stuff here, but there is so much to learn but I dont see enough benefits to push me to…

I thought the same thing when I saw the example page. Its closer to html than markdown.

Reading through the source for the specifications was interesitng. There is a lot of good stuff here, but there is so much to learn but I dont see enough benefits to push me to…

While I think this is worth exploring, at a certain point you end up doing so much that you could just write raw HTML, and then you'd have the advantage of being able to display…

Please put concrete examples right at the top of the page you're publicizing!

What's the main advantage over AsciiDoc? Although it's already on your roadmap, but it definitely needs more complex examples. Fiddled around a bit with links to same-doc…

That playground is cool. I wonder if there are any 2-way playgrounds where the right side is also editable using a Word / Google Docs style interface (and the changes are…

What's the main advantage over AsciiDoc? Although it's already on your roadmap, but it definitely needs more complex examples. Fiddled around a bit with links to same-doc…

Please, anytime you try to imitate parts of org-mode, consider org-mode, markup and abilities.

Damian Conway… a name to conjure with. What are the advantages of the Podlite design?

Looks nice, I have a couple of questions: Does this use a single pass for the parser? Is there an EBNF spec? What sort of diagrams does it support? Thanks

Ouch. IMHO the reason markdown became so popular is because how simple it is, how well the syntax generally stays out of the way of the content, and its almost entire lack of…

I'm still upset that Markdown ended up getting all the mindshare. AsciiDoc is so much nicer.

What's the main advantage over AsciiDoc? Although it's already on your roadmap, but it definitely needs more complex examples. Fiddled around a bit with links to same-doc…

AsciiDoc is much nicer, but has the unfortunate flaw of having basically one implementation and it's in Ruby (the JS one is just transpiled, the Java one runs on JRuby, not sure…

Please, anytime you try to imitate parts of org-mode, consider org-mode, markup and abilities.

I had all kinds of plans for my knowledge management for over a decade. Then I started using org-roam and now the activation energy to consider anything else is so high that I'm…

Isn't it the way perl scripts write their documentation? I don't know what makes it good for personal knowledge systems from reading the introduction

Perl's POD, yes. But you're right! The spec authors are Perl folx, and this is clearly derivative. What's kind of interesting is that POD stands for "Plain Old Documentation" and…

Might not work for my use case then. djot is single-pass so dovetails better with forth-style languages. I do like the blocks and mistake marking though :)