>> Markdown's dead? Absurd. > > Obviously. That’s why no one said that. > > Markdown *development* is dead. > > (Straw men are easy to clobber.)
And cherries are easy to pick. My point is that the canonical ambitions that some have for Markdown aren't shared by it's author (Gruber) and it's adoptive parent (Michel Fortin). I'd argue that this is an acceptable state of affairs, especially considering the wild success of the general format and the appearance of gentlemen like Thomas Leitner and his kramdown project. To me, this is a line of maintainers, each picking up the tacit core, which is 96% finished by now. And, again, it's always been part of the bargain that you must wrap the transformer if you need special shit, or if you regularly work with an unresolved edge case. I think that elevating Markdown to a grammar and taking an obligation to produce and maintain coordinated transformers in multiple languages is a nice ambition for somebody to have. I doubt very much that it would deliver benefits over the status quo that would justify the effort. I could be wrong. LQ _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss