For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document.
Juste une précision sur LibreOffice 25.8 et le Markdown.
LibreOffice 25.8 ouvre bien les fichiers en .md. Mais, malgré ce qui est proposé dans la liste des formats d'exports, la suite bureautique n'exporte pas encore en Markdown.
https://linuxfr.org/users/ysabeau/journaux/libreoffice-25-8-et-le-markdown
Juste une précision sur LibreOffice 25.8 et le Markdown.
LibreOffice 25.8 ouvre bien les fichiers en .md. Mais, malgré ce qui est proposé dans la liste des formats d'exports, la suite bureautique n'exporte pas encore en Markdown.
https://linuxfr.org/users/ysabeau/journaux/libreoffice-25-8-et-le-markdown
For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document.
I think the most important #kitten #smallweb #webFramework structural feature is dynamically generating composite #markdown documents from reuseable fragments, the markdown then rendered into sanitized #html the usual way. #web #programming
Article: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten/this-is-just-arals-fragment-md-example/
Which is admittedly just me reproducing one of @aral 's tutorials: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/layout-components/#markdown-fragment-md
I can imagine you (yes you) have a sophisticated opinion on this topic I would like to hear.
# Advent of #markdown, day 24: Index 1
Today we will look at ordered lists yet again. Did you know there is special logic if a list directly follows a paragraph?
If your ordered list does not start with '1', you must leave an empty line above it.
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This was the last day of my Advent of Markdown. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, even if I could not cover everything in detail.
If someone ever works on a new standard for formatting notes and chat messages, I'd love to be involved.
# Advent of #markdown, day 24: Index 1
Today we will look at ordered lists yet again. Did you know there is special logic if a list directly follows a paragraph?
If your ordered list does not start with '1', you must leave an empty line above it.
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This was the last day of my Advent of Markdown. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, even if I could not cover everything in detail.
If someone ever works on a new standard for formatting notes and chat messages, I'd love to be involved.
# Advent of #markdown, day 23: HTML
HTML parsing is weird and there are many special cases and defined lists of elements. Here is a weird case where markdown formatting sometimes still works.
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What platform can I use to share my travel photos? I'm trying out Instagram now. I don't like Facebook, but at least you can view public photos without logging in.
# Advent of #markdown, day 22: Empty lines
A lot of markdown handling around spaces and newlines is linked to how HTML handles them. This is a simple example.
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I find it weird that there is so much licensing around music, while popular copyrighted music is on youtube for free.
# Advent of #markdown, day 21: Leading zeros
Staying on the topic of ordered lists, there is another odd feature that I disagree with: Leading zeros of the numbers are stripped away.
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I tried staying awake longer so that I could fall asleep in the car more easily. Turns out I couldn't fall asleep anyway.
# Advent of #markdown, day 20: Maximum ordered list number
Ordered lists allow numbers up to 9 digits, but after that they are just displayed as text.
> The reason for the length limit is that with 10 digits we start seeing integer overflows in some browsers.
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I tried to understand white balance today, but it's a deeply confusing topic. Why is there so much work going into automatic white balance in cameras, but no professionals use things like Apple's True Tone?
# Advent of #markdown, day 19: Indent calculation
Okay, for this one I went through the GFM specification and counted 15 pages on indentation and alignment.
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HEIC seems like a good image format, but why does no one support it?
Can you generate your figures in multiple formats and want to always use the format that's suited best for the target? Omit the file extension from the image path and use `--default-image-extension`. E.g., if you export an #image as both #pdf and #svg, then you can write this #Markdown
and run #pandoc with
pandoc --to=html --default-image-extension=svg
or
pandoc --to=latex --default-image-extension=pdf
How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
@reiver #gotosocial posts are also in #markdown
How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
@reiver #gotosocial posts are also in #markdown
How many Fediverse software use Markdown as its default text format — rather than HTML?
I think both PeerTube and Lemmy are Markdown native — rather than HTML.
Anything else?
# Advent of #markdown, day 14: Punctuation syntax
Emphasis can be created with _ or *, but there are special rules for spaces and punctuation.
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I was listening to a podcast on computational photography this morning, and after a really interesting discussion on cameras that can see around corners, they suddenly start talking about GenAI...
To celebrate 10 YEARS (!) of beautiful markdown documents with Markdeep, I made a new website!
https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Same attention to hand-crafted code, 100% data privacy, client-side processing, and text-based obsession.
New fancy CSS styles, support for more editors and markdown features, and new browser compatibility tricks for a seamless document experience.
This kicks off a month of new Markdeep feature releases to ring in the new year and the next decade of Markdeep.
# Advent of #markdown, day 13: Empty lists
Imagine you are in a group chat and you just want to react to a message with '+' or '-'. Markdown makes this more complicated.
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I know this one because multiple friends complained about it...
