Rich text editing is a foundational interaction in productivity software. Slim joins Mark and Adam to explain how rich text is more than just bold and italics for prose, but also includes math equations, diagrams, slideshows, and sheet music. Their discussion includes WYSIWYG versus markup languages for end users; how block-based editors change our understanding of rich text; and why Pandoc is Slim’s favorite piece of software. Plus: how to choose the best wagon in Oregon Trail.

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Slim “Sarah” Lim @sliminality
UC Berkeley, Notion, Ink & Switch
14" vs 16" MacBook Pro
The Oregon Trail, 5th Edition
Khan Academy R&D group with Andy Matuschak
Ply, Slim’s CSS inspector
Bert Bos (co-creator of CSS)
Notion’s inline equation editor
Peritext
Further Research is Needed
Welcome to Night Vale
structured editors
Lisp and S-Expressions
Pandoc
CommonMark, ReMarkdown
Beamer, reveal.js
AsciiDoc
Eternals
Overleaf
stan
Association for Computing Machinery
ACM switch to HTML from PDF as archival format
MathML
MathJax, KaTeX
MathOverflow
Jonathan Aldrich
Bear
Finale, MuseScore
Graphviz, Mermaid, Svgbob
Sketch-n-Sketch

48 // Rich text with Slim Lim

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