The Woes of Writing Markdown (And the wishes of SquiggleMark) is an essay about some of the technical and artistic challenges inherent to writing ergodic text using markup language. I posted her...
The Woes of Writing Markdown (And the wishes of SquiggleMark) is an essay about some of the technical and artistic challenges inherent to writing ergodic text using markup language. I posted her story Weave Me Another Cocoon last year, and it's a fantastic example of how art can push the limits of a medium and the machinery that supports it.
But the real superpower of pandoc is that, much in the way switching to neocities escapes the prison-roads of locked down platforms, switching to pandoc escapes at once the restrictions of both rich text and standard markdown.
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Even writing raw HTML isn’t as powerful as what pandoc lets you do, because pandoc has a convenient interface for reading and writing the AST that it translates all its inputs and outputs to.
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If you aren’t familiar with my work, then when I said I loved the details disclosure element, or that I’m experimental writer doing creative things, you could have brushed it off as a cute yet idle exclamation or an otherwise meaningless remark. If you aren’t familiar, then gaze upon Weave Me Another Cocoon and let its depths ensnare you.
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And that, finally, is what this year started me down the road to writing my own markdown parser.
The Woes of Writing Markdown (And the wishes of SquiggleMark) is an essay about some of the technical and artistic challenges inherent to writing ergodic text using markup language. I posted her story Weave Me Another Cocoon last year, and it's a fantastic example of how art can push the limits of a medium and the machinery that supports it.
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Snuggle Squiggle's website is a work of art in its own right too.