I dunno. I’ve written a bit of LaTeX but does it really shine in this context? IMO the real advantage it has is that it can allow the user to express more complicated intents than Markdown (weird phrasing—my natural instinct was to call LaTeX more precise than Markdown, but Markdown is pretty precise for describing the type of file that it is good at…).
replyAnyway LLMs don’t have underlying intent so maybe it is fine to just let them express what they can in Markdown?
Markdown has the widest tool compatibility - GitHub renders it, so does VS Code and many other editors and file hosts.
replyI didn't know about sh-session, is that documented anywhere?
I think its primarily because that is the most common formatting in every editor now? I could be wrong. Markdown has become the standard for README files for over a decade now.
replyWinning a popularity contest doesn’t mean it’s good. That is the worst part of about these things as they just generate the most common denominator type code/tooling while also repeating anti-patterns/mistakes like the bash vs. sh-session/console issue I pointed out. Garbage in has been so much garbage out unfortunately.
replyNever said it was good, just making an observation that Markdown is most likely to be available to render OOTB in more editors. I don't think Markdown is bad necessarily either. It's "good enough" for simple document.
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