On 18 Oct 2017, at 06:12, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > It has a totally non-semantic syntax,
I’m not sure what that means. > which makes nearly impossible for many, like me, to learn it; since the > characters it uses are often part of the content, certain content can't be > represented without complicated escapes, and some can't be represented at > all; its HTML repertoire is severely limited, for example, some > implementations allow tables, but not if you need cells to span multiple > columns or rows; No, because it is not intended to be a replacement for HTML. It is intended to be “I have a text file which if I do a few things to it it still looks like a text file to anyone reading it, but can also be easily converted into simple HTML.” Complex tables are not part of that. In fact, I don’t think tables are supported in Markdown at all. Maybe you hate some markdown fork? <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax> "Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.” > implementations vary widely, which not only adds to the learning curve but > also limits what you can express where. When a presentation language Yeah, it’s not a presentation language. > places limits on what you can express, forcing you to dumb down your message, > and learning it, including its limitations and idiosyncratic implementations, > takes a huge investment in time for something that was intended to save time, > those are pretty good reasons for hating it. A high investment of time? I have one document that has all the basic markdown in it (about 20 lines of text) which I open as a reference if I want to do something in markdown I’ve forgot to. Otherwise, 99% of it is just writing the text and formatting it basically the way I would anyway. -- Apple broke AppleScripting signatures in Mail.app, so no random signatures. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
