tonto·4 years ago·discusslook forward to having standardized e.g. "figure captions", looks like it's being worked out here https://github.com/jgm/djot/issues/28pandoc is interesting because with markdown it currently converts the "alt text" for figures  in markdown->pdf conversion into the figure captions, which is cool but makes me think: it is not alt anymore, anyone should have it
tonto·4 years ago·discussTIL Aaron Schwartz had at least some role in creating markdown also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gruber#History
tonto·4 years ago·discussThis does seem like the right approach....without any requirements in this mit0 then you can just steal it outright it seems
pandoc is interesting because with markdown it currently converts the "alt text" for figures  in markdown->pdf conversion into the figure captions, which is cool but makes me think: it is not alt anymore, anyone should have it