Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

[Andrea Censi]

On 12/28/06, John Gruber <gruber at fedora.net> wrote:

> Andrea Censi <andrea at censi.org> wrote on 12/27/06 at 7:11 PM:

>

> >In particular, what do you think of this (proposed) syntax for adding

> >meta-data to span-level elements?

> >

> >http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html#future

>

> 8.1. A syntax for specifying meta-data for span-level elements

>

> Your use of braces here is very likely to conflict with future

> extensions to Markdown itself.


About this, Michel Fortin referred to an old thread (2005) about
meta-data syntax.
I resurrected it and tried to summarize:

http://maruku.rubyforge.org/markdown_extra2.html
http://maruku.rubyforge.org/markdown_extra2.md

Any comment after so long time?


> 8.2. Comments.

>

> Why not just use HTML comments?


For one thing, if I have to write a one-line comment:

    <!-- Please, Mark, have a look at the following list -->

I need no less than 7 characters. Practically every language except
xml allows a
    <delimiter> <comment> <newline>
syntax.

For hiding a lot of text, I concede that the <!-- --> syntax is
sufficient, but is really overkill for short comments

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Andrea Censi
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