A Perplexing Markdown Problem or iA Writer Specific Problem

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I love the idea of using Latex: have regularly spent many happy days installing MacTex and getting it work properly with AucTex on Emacs.

Then I realise that I have no conceivable use for Latex, unless one day I accidentally become an academic in a relevant field, and the chances of that were never great and diminished rapidly once I retired. So I drop the idea of using it for a year or two until the urge arises once more.

It is immense fun to play with, though.

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I totally agree. I do write Markdown now mostly in BBEdit and just use the standard meta symbols and that, it seems to me, is the point of it. Anything more elaborate in formatting terms calls for a word processor?

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I want to thank everyone for your kind and, as always, helpful comments and suggestions. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time and effort to assist me. I’m still experimenting with iA Writer as I work on several presentations to see if it can meet most of my writing and presentation needs. One of the things I value about using plain text files is the ability to bulk export and or bulk convert if and as needed. I cannot do this with a word processor.

Thank you! :pray:t2: Why do I feel a little like Tim Cook when I use that emoji? :rofl:

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I start using iA not because of plain text, but I hate Microsoft Word and other word processors. I just need to write while there is no need to print my works out. Blog articles and writing my travel guides for publishers to publish with Adobe.

And iA Writer does have export to Word or pdf so the writing is much easier for me. As I have to provide images separately from texts so that designers can arrange the layout so there is no point to write on Word.

But at that time I still regard Evernote as a central database so after writing I would copy the text with images back to Evernote for later easy searching.

Now I start with Apple Notes but if I create something really valuable or there is bigger need (like focusing on longform writing) I will move to iA Writer first. Important pieces of writing will have two places while drafts will stay on Apple Notes only. I think it will be a balance between convenience/focus and storage.

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