Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

[Jan Erik Moström]

Reply to A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> 06-12-30 17:17:


>That doesn't seem problematic to me. If you write documents that

>use features that are not part of Markdown, and the formatter

>documentation makes it clear that the features you are using are

>not part of Markdown, then you know what you are getting yourself

>into. I don't see what's bad about that.


Yes, and as I understand this is what John Gruber suggested. 
Create/base any kind of markup on Markdown but only call it 
Markdown if it's Markdown ... otherwise people are going to 
confuse different versions of Markdown and complain about 
implementations that doesn't work.

Let's not make mistake of having different versions of the same 
language (remember for example early version of LaTeX and C).

                     jem