On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:32:19PM +0100, 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.
Markdown is closely related to HTML. And HTML is meant for display of text (and more) on very different devices, from a watch to an e-reader, to a newspaper, to a computer screen. Having line breaks to show at the same place as the source code means that the text will require a display similar to that of the author of the source file, for proper reading. PDF line breaks will show in the same place in every device, for example, as it has even a paper size linked to it. That's why it's annoying to use PDF in some small devices, and HTML ends up looking better. My five cents, Lluís. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
