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Discussion on: What are your Favorite Text-Processing Tools?

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Ryan Palo

I'll start :)

I'm going to do it, because it truly is an amazing tool: Pandoc.

Favorite markup language: Markdown (so so so much), but I wish I had an excuse to write more restructuredtext, because it seems so powerful. Also, I actually really like plain ole HTML. I also wish I was better at LaTeX.

Favorite text-based data format: YAML

Favorite templating language: probably Liquid, but Jinja2 isn't bad either.

Favorite static site builder: Jekyll, but I've been shopping around just for fun. Zola seems super cool, but I haven't had enough free time to kick the tires yet. And I'm building my own in my spare time. It's going good so far, but not really ready for public consumption yet. Also, I need a dope logo of a cute squid above an ink bottle, but don't have the artistic skill to create that yet.

Bonus mention to sed and awk for being the tools that are there for us when nobody else is.