I guess if that is the philosophy that BBEdit goes by, then we have to either deal with it or look elsewhere. Kinda sad that this is the state. One can view this as an excuse for not keeping up with the where markdown as moved to. Yes the original doesn't have all these extensions, but I think a lot of markdown software try to accommodate how markdown has evolved.
On Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 3:26:32 AM UTC-4, Lewis Butler wrote: > > On 11 Sep 2018, at 09:42, Stephen Lien <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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.
