48 // 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. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show 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