Still Emacs, still Tufte
Quite long ago, I started to use Tufte style for my blog posts. The liquid
tags used is from Immaculate. As with all plain-text formatting, these tags
eventually get in the way.
From Word-like WISIWIG to plain-text formats like the venerated Tex or much simpler ones Markdown or Org-mode, the key differences are whether the formatting tags are seen and how demanding the formatting requirement is. The formatting requirement of Tufte style is more demanding than conventional markdown documents and thus the tags feel more cluttering. As a weekend project, I hacked a
markdown-tufte extension for Emacs. It help me cope with the
sidenote/marginnote mess.
Writing habit and tools
As a follow up to my TODO review, I’ve rolled out the first draft of a writing habit, together with an over-enginered tool, habit, to enforce it.