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> ...Okay yeah that's actually a pretty good reason not to use it. I can't get into lisps for the same reason.

I guess this is why he's not using Pollen, which is explicitly designed for this sort of thing, but based on Racket.

I actually settled on rST for writing fiction manuscripts, I think because I actually liked the syntax? Maybe I just needed proper header support. I'm compiling to DOCX via pandoc, so I'm not using the extensibility in the slightest. Anyway, it's amusingly validating to see someone else use it for a similar job.



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