[O] Difficulty of using Org mode

[Michael Hannon]

Hi, folks.  Just FYI:


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>There is no point comparing markdown with org mode, and the answer
>will be definitely this: org mode can beat markdown almost everywhere;
>they are not even comparable. The point is that markdown was not
>designed to provide new features; it was designed to be simple so it
>intentionally discarded lots of features and people can learn it
>quickly. I have tried a few times to learn org mode, and it is just
>too complicated for me.
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>Yihui
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>On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Stephen Eglen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> That's interesting that LaTeX was a barrier for R users.
>>
>> I've not used Markdown before; it seems neat, but what does it offer
>> that org mode doesn't?  I see there is a markdown-mode.el
>>
>> http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/
>>
>> that has some support for org mode style cycling of outlines.
>>
>> Anyone prefer markdown to org mode, and if so why?
>>
>> (If anyone is interested, on the org mode list recently there was
>> discussion about exporting org docs to markdown.)
>>
>> Stephen
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