2023-05-22

Remember Evernote?

Manually regex-massaged and migrated to Obsidian my first #Evernote note: the long list of abbreviations and labels in OED. I needed to look up the meaning of ppl in the definition of affectate. The label means participial. Duh!

In regexing, my appreciation for markdown grew appreciably because of the complexity in syntax. For instance, dealing with

<html-tag> ... </html-tag>

is inherently more taxing than, say,

**[text]**

For one thing, the opening and closing delimiters are exactly the same form in markdown in this case.

But I am over-simplifying too much. I shouldn't be implying that markdown does not allow nesting, the primary source of the messiness and fundamental incompatibility between regex and html.