From FormatBreaks to Markdown

John Gruber gruber at fedora.net
Sun Apr 25 19:34:35 EDT 2004


Jay Allen <markdown at openwire.com> wrote on 04/26/04 at 1:24a:

>   I just keep thinking to myself "It's SO damn easy to read and edit!"  
> I know you know this already, John.

That's OK. I don't mind hearing it again. :^)


>   Indeed.  But again, it's one line of SQL and a rebuild.  The only 
> reason I haven't done it yet is because, like I said, I'm busy and have 
> no time to devote to fixing it in case I screw anything up.

Tell me about it. Today I finally got around to fixing a bunch of
old Markdown entries from November through January, which I wrote
while the syntax was in flux, and which ended up with broken image
tags and other turds after subsequent syntax changes.

-J.G.


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