Org Mode, Marked, and Workflows

Last year, I wrote an article called “Seriously, Markdown” in which I gently dismantled the “nobody can do serious writing in Markdown” arguments that come up every so often. I got some pushback, none of which I confess I found particularly convincing because they invariably rehashed points I addressed in the article. Also, people who got their hackles up tended to gloss over the part where I wrote, I’m not saying “give up and just use Markdown.” Being familiar with another markup system is a powerful argument for staying with it, for a start, and there are other reasons to use something else that have nothing to do with markup. There are specific kinds of technical documentation […] where AsciiDoc is your only practical alternative to full-bore SGML/XML. And as a newly anointed Emacs nerd, I find myself using Org Mode daily at work, and that includes writing extensive notes using its markup system, not Markdown. So. Something else I wrote was: When you focus purely on the markup…

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