On 11 Sep 2018, at 09:42, Stephen Lien <[email protected]> wrote: > I hate to be negative, but wait until you try to write LaTeX equations in > your markdown documents. Personally I find it annoying the way the syntax > highlighting gets confused with _ for subscripts. > > I wrote to support and the response was basically, LaTeX equations are not > part of the formal markdown spec. True, but many people rely on them in > their documents. Github, Pandoc, etc... > > I think the accepted standard is that anything between dollar signs is > considered an equation as long as there are no spaces after the left dollar > sign and no spaces before the right dollar sign and no digits after the left > dollar sign. > > I think you are on your own for anything more complex than the basic syntax > included. > > I wish the syntax that is included in BBEdit was open via Github so users can > help extend and the BBedit people could approve or not the pull requests.
There are a lot of variation on MarkDown, but John has been steadfast in his belief that MarkDown is exactly what it was intended to be, and BBEdit uses the version John publishes. <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax> > PHILOSOPHY > > 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. While Markdown’s > syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters — > including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText — the > single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of > plain text email. > > To this end, Markdown’s syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation > characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so as to > look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually look like > *emphasis*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even blockquotes look like > quoted passages of text, assuming you’ve ever used email. You might not agree, but I would say that embedded LaTeX does not fit that philosophy (and I'm a fan of LaTeX). -- "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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.
