3  Languages

If you merely want to produce a passably good document–something acceptable and basically readable but not really beautiful–a simpler system will usually suffice (Knuth 1984, 1)

3.1 Markdown

Immediate feedback for the effect of formatting on text in these markdown editors. You should be able to get a sense of how text is treated by exploring – the general structure of markdown is portable across platforms, so it is helpful to know, although regional dialects will exhibit slight discrepancies (for example, rMarkdown shares many elements but minor peculiarities arise).

3.1.1 StackEdit

StackEdit does not require any download and is fully operable within a browser.

Screenshot of StackEdit interface

Figure 3.1: Screenshot of StackEdit interface

3.1.2 HackMD