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I upvoted your grey post because it was not wrongthink, someone was just thinking wrong.

If you are in the UK it was a gray post. Oh wait it's the other way round. I was thinking wrong.

Still doesn't support footnotes (only as endnotes): https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/macros/footnote...

Thought this was about Microsoft..

That line of thought requires us to take unnecessary and costly effort to deduce structure from content. For example, finding a date in an e-mail body via regular expressions or NER tools. If the structure of the content is explicit, we know what part of the text is a date and what parts are not.

While I do agree that extensibility is vital for a general tool like this (and Markdown isn't), I also think that it is necessary to make certain concessions to standard elements (like paragraphs) in a text. I think TeX and Typst get this right, for example, and writing text is the default, with light-weight markup for paragraphs. Both of them then have ways to still switch into "structured" markup where desired.

Also, just offering the ability to introduce structure does not mean that it is done. For example, I could still write

    (p [I write this comment on August 1, 2024.])

So there is the question whether using something like Skribilo would really save us from having to heuristically extract dates from e-mail bodies in practice.

I use a Brave extension that opens always a new window. Window management is then left to my WM, XMonad.

Wouldn't you lose tab hibernation? Also with dozens of tabs does this not pollute the WM?

Is Landy envious of Girard? With Landy having just 1 (one) wikipedia article to his name, and Girard 36 (thirty-six)? Who knows. Thanks for the reference.

Emacs is a multifunctional computing environment that is popular among software developers. It can also be a highly useful tool for authors who write prose instead of computer code. You can use Emacs to manage your research, write articles, books and websites and publish these to different formats. Emacs the most powerful software tool ever invented, but its learning curve can be quite steep. These articles are written for beginners and explain everything you need to know to use Emacs as your main writing tool.

Emacs Writing Studio (EWS) is a minimalist configuration that helps authors to research, write and publish articles books and websites.

I looked at this last year and liked it. I ended up sticking with my old setup: using a markdown editing app with leanpub.com for my manuscripts, and Apple Notes to manage research notes.

I think your system is very good, but I decided to stick with my super-simple setup. I have been using emacs for 40 years but use it less now, favoring specialized setups. I mostly use eMacs now for programming with various Lisp languages and I like my Python emacs workflow.

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Your data does not answer: how many of these books are actually read (in the US)?

Moving to Buckfast, then?