On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:06:32 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 12:57:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
1. People receiving messages through NNTP/mailing lists will
not see the formatted Markdown. Although Markdown's goal is to
be readable in its plain text source code, it still allows
many situations in which the source is misleading or difficult
to understand. For example, special characters need to be
escaped by a backslash, which can create confusion in the
presence of other special characters. (Are they part of the D
syntax the user is describing, or something else?) Some syntax
such as tables or images can also be not very readable in
source form.
What about supporting only a few features like hyperlinks and
code blocks? These should be unambiguous and not conflict with
anything.
Yes, we could do that, with the downside of implementing our own
Markdown variant with its own instruction manual. But we already
use footnotes for hyperlinks by convention, and code already
looks fine, so what's the gain? Syntax highlighting?
