Markdown-Discuss Digest, Vol 139, Issue 3

[ubi de feo]

hi Jeff

thanks for sharing this, hadn't bumped into it yet :)

besides trying to define a set of specs for core, it's also a good run-down of basic rules and practices.
it may help me be more consistent in how I write MD.

there's a typo in "quoted text"

a greater-than symbol <

and I don't agree with "tables as images", that makes very little sense to me :D

cheers
ubi



On 11 Nov 2014, at 07:38, Jeff McNeill <jeff at jeffmcneill.com> wrote:

>> As a mere user, I've noticed the same thing. One of the purported 
>> benefits of markdown is its portability, i.e., the ability of the user 
>> to write in any editor, knowing that he can then load it into any number 
>> of parsers and get consistent results.
>> 
>> But, with all the different flavors out there, one now has to think, 
>> "which parser will I use to convert this file?" and insert markdown 
>> accordingly. I recently discovered at least four different ways in which 
>> parsers deal with typographic quotes and dashes, from the original 
>> SmartyPants to the Python Markdown implementation of SmartyPants to the 
>> Calibre implementation of it to RMarkdown's implementation (not to 
>> mention ReStructuredText and Textile, both of which do it differently, 
>> yet). So, I have to commit to a given dialect and converter before I 
>> begin to type. To me, that's defeating one of the fundamental purposes 
>> of markdown.
>> 
>> Virgil
> 
> 
> I believe that is why a neutral, “Bland” Markdown recommendation is needed. Not as yet another parser or syntax but as something to tell writers and editors to use, so that their content can be properly processed.
> 
> This is actually not too difficult. http://jeffmcneill.com/bland-markdown
> 
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