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Re: Accessible CMS for writer AND reader? Contao? Wordpress? Ghost? Other? And opinions of Markdown for authoring?

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From: _mallory
Date: Oct 12, 2015 8:23AM

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 02:40:54PM +0100, Jonathan H wrote:
> I rather like Markdown, but how is it regarded in the VI community?

People I know (who tend to be developers or at least quite comfortable
with computers) have said they like Markdown and find it pretty easy.
Of course these folks were writing their markdown in text editors where
punctuation would be set high like when you're programming, rather than
filling in HTML forms (as most CMS admins seem to be these days).

However I don't know how non-techies like it, and I'm not sure how
easy for people it is to find and fix things like markdown whitespace
errors which then do weird HTML grouping sometimes. Usually I notice
those visually and then hunt around the md file itself trying to
find where some newline might be missing. Bleh.

Take this as a single anecdote if nobody has any research. There's
also of course the possibility of polling this group yourself, right?

_mallory