On Jan 13, 2012, at 7:32 AM, BohwaZ wrote: > Le Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:10:44 -0500, Jeremy Cowgar <jer...@cowgar.com> a > écrit : > >> That is standard w/about any markup language, for example what you >> typed in HTML would also appear as First line Second line. The >> reasoning is that line breaks are not normal in text. Paragraph >> breaks are. Thus you take the norm and make it easy, the abnormal (or >> the exception) is the one that requires you do to something >> differently. > > Who decides line breaks are abnormal? They are natural in any text > processing software, like when writing emails, word processing, text > editors and so on. I don't see why a markup language should ignore them. > > HTML is kind of a special case as it is not really similar to plain > text. Markdown is meant to be similar to plain text so this line break > handling is quite disturbing. > > And other markup languages like Textile, txt2tags and BBCode all parse > line breaks naturally, so that isn't standard either.
Markdown is designed to do the right thing for text layout. In a book you do not see lines like this unless it has a special purpose. It is abnormal. You don't see messages like this in email either, if you do the author has generally made a mistake. As said in previous conversations, no markup language is ever going to satisfy everyone, for example the current markup language doesn't, markdown apparently doesn't and textile won't either. To me markdown is the best choice as it is widely adopted. Jeremy _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
