So yeah, re: Libreplanet, lots of good looking talks this year: https://libreplanet.org/2018/program/

This is also the first time my spouse (Morgan Lemmer-Webber) and I are both speaking at the same conference!

I've said it before but we're giving a workshop on digital publishing with Racket and Scribble the Monday right after Libreplanet in the Boston Red Hat office... limited slots, but plenty open right now. No prior programming experience required: https://dustycloud.org/tmp/lp2018-digital-humanities-flier.pdf

@cwebber This looks interesting!

I've played with Racket before, but I haven't used it seriously.

Do you have an opinion about how Scribble compares with Markdown or Pandoc?

@ejworthing I think Scribble is hands down the greatest publishing environment I've ever used. Ever!

A lot of things are nice about Scribble, including the syntax, etc. But it's also a very "programmable" document authoring system, and yet with a syntax that I think is as natural as Markdown. Secretly it's just "inverted Scheme" but that's very well hidden from the user... unless they want it to be.

@cwebber I'll have to check it out!

@ejworthing I don't know what editors you use; there's a scribble-mode for Emacs. However if you have no particular editor, DrRacket turns out to be pretty good and is what we recommend workshop participants use. You can even turn on word wrap and spell checking to get a bit of word processor type familiarity.