{"id":22462,"date":"2026-08-22T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22462"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:46:32","slug":"could-markdown-go-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/could-markdown-go-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Markdown go to School?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other day I was complimented, albeit in a jokey way, on the neat organisation of a word document I had produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said nothing, I don’t have a working copy of word on my computer. I do have access, via glow, to the online version but I dislike browser based apps of this sort. I have never been a big fan or power user of word anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My docx was not created with word but with TextMate, written in markdown. & converted with pandoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It occurred to me that it is a lot simpler to make a reasonable structured document with markdown than most other applications. Being limited to headings of different levels, paragraphs, lists and a few more formatting features could be seen as a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Might it be easier, in some alternative universe, for children to learn the basics of creating an organised document before opening word or other software behemoth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wrote the above yesterday, in drafts in Markdown. Today I read<\/a> that Markdown had been added to Onedrive for iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew Onedrive in the browser would display Markdown as my planning for class before I retired was written in Markdown. I could write at home and read in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I had a look in the desktop browser and there is a create Markdown file in the list there too. It opens a basic in-browser editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It then occurred to me that maybe you could paste Markdown into word, so I tried that, in the online version of word, and yes you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seems that AI is driving Markdown take up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n