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Originally Posted by jandrew
I'm not sure I see the value of this over just using pandoc which can do markdown->epub2/3 (among many other conversions). And pandoc is fairly widely used and available for Win/Mac/Linux.
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I could be mis-remembering, but I'm 99% sure that user_none started work on a Markdown editor, with which to make ePUBs, about...3 years ago? I know he'd been seeking input from folks. As I've heard naught about it, I'd hazard a guess that he found that the interest was basically zero.
Using Markdown, et al, is all well and good for the wonks of the world...but it needs to be something that the creator himself or herself wants to use, because the sad truth is, most folks won't use it. If you're OCD, then, great, Markdown and its ilk are for you, but most people aren't, and won't. People like to do what's easy--and what's easy is using Word, Scrivener, Wordperfect, OO (because it's free), LO (ditto), etc. People do whatever is easiest and/or free. They do.
Using Markdown (which I use all day long)
is more work, upfront, than using a word-processor. I can't just hit a button and italicize something, or make a header--I have to tag it. It's annoying as crap when I am trying to work all bloody day long, already typing my fingers off to clients. I have no idea how many keystrokes a day are added to my workload because I have to type ".h3" whenever I want to create a section head, or _italic_ or *bold* blah-blah, but
it's a bunch. Worse, the "flavors" of Markdown I use--one at Desk and the other at Teamworks--are not the SAME, so I have to remember that a section in one is 3 hashmarks, but that's the list function in the other. Giant PITA.
I cannot fathom, given what I see all day in terms of pure human laziness (in terms of people who never bothered to learn how to even use the BASICS of their word-processor, much less anything else like lists, styles, and the like) that people will suddenly adopt Markdown (or its ilk), causing them MORE work. There would have to be a massively great reason to promote adoption--and what is that? And if it's not adopted widely, how is it
supported?
Just sayin'.
Hitch