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[Jason Davies]

Boris Le Ninivin wrote on 18/8/12 at 13:59


>Well, while I agree with you that manual new lines are difficult to see

>(not in vim, however, you can highlight them easily), and that they

>should be considered for replacement by another syntax (maybe the LaTeX

>\\)


Others have commented sagely on your other points but I'm 
talking about people getting the hang of Markdown as their first 
mark-up language. It's uniquely suited to that and is 
deliberately so: 'Markdown allows you to write using an 
easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format...' 
(http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/). The fact that 
you *can* highlight them is not the point I was trying to make: 
you can do that even in Word, never mind BBEdit or vim (etc) -- 
but it's a diversion from Gruber's original statement (and I 
presume, vision).

The OP genuinely wanted replies (so I'm really replying to that 
rather than your comments, but I'm using them as a prompt). 
Whitespace mark-up is a difficult path to go down without 
gradually repositioning Markdown as a 'difficult-to-use, 
specialist-editor-only plain text format'...