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		blueflow 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Six Years of Gemini It is possible if you restrict yourself to an subset of markdown. It works pretty well, actually, i have two awk scripts that take in a subset of markdown and generate either HTML or LaTeX.

uamgeoalsk 5 days ago | [–]

Sure, that's fair! In any case, I personally prefer the aesthetics and the readability of gemtext to markdown (especially when it comes to links!)

Etheryte 5 days ago | [–]

Pure ascii text is also a subset of markdown, so it doesn't really say much that it works for a restricted subset.

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