Metamuse Episode 48 — January 20, 2022
Rich text with Slim Lim
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.
Episode notes
- 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