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I mean, okay, I can see that, but they're not really equivalent examples, are they? The README isn't setting up a carousel, dealing with custom styles, or embedding an interactive example. There isn't really any way to implement these two Quaint examples that won't look like code. [1] or [2] are more representative of using Quaint like Markdown, although in that situation it's less clear what the advantages are, because there's not a lot in there that Markdown would do poorly.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/breuleux/blog/master/conte...

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/breuleux/blog/master/conte...

In any case, it does appear the discoverability of straightforward examples leaves something to be desired, so thank you for making me realize that.

To me the advantages of Quaint is that I can easily define custom operators to do nonstandard things unobtrusively. For instance, if for some reason I want to emphasize some words in italic orange, I can easily set it up so that e.g. /xyz would highlight xyz in italic orange. Silly example, but there are a lot of valid use cases.




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