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diff --git a/_background.qmd b/_background.qmd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac9da22 --- /dev/null +++ b/_background.qmd @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +An authoring style that has grown popular, +especially among some programmers, +is to write in a format called Markdown, +and then compile the final document. + +Compared to word processors like Microsoft Word and LibreOffice Writer, +Markdown authoring stores both content and markup together +in a human-readable tekst file. + +HTML is itself a plaintext format, +but is less human-readable. +Similarly the format LaTeX is also plaintext, +but its markdown arguably distracts the reading process. + +Other human-readable document source formats exists. +FIXME Org-mode. +FIXME AsciiDoc. |