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dazzling | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Another markup language?
I think I prefer markdown or asciidoc...
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jb55 | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 this is specifically for papers. markdown or asciidoc doesn’t provide any tools for equations, etc. they just rely on latex which is a can of worms. Its nice to have a simpler canonical format for that
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dazzling | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Okay, I can see that is a niche for a more accessible tool. As a computer guy I like LaTeX, but I can see it is not for everyone.
And anything that steers people away from writing papers in Word is good 😃