-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-12-09 06:11, Frank Bell wrote: > I listened to the Community News today. I found the discussion about shownotes > towards the end to be most interesting. I'm amazed someone actually made it to the end.
> > Just out of idle curiosity, what am I supposed to look like?:) Inquiri ng minds > want to know. Clark Gable > > As regards shownotes, I'm with Ken. Keep it simple. I am willing to learn > markdown if that's what HPR wants and I'm willing to learn stuff if ne ed be. > Having to learn stuff is one thing that keeps me fascinated by *nix. > > I do know my way around HTML; I'm not expert, but I get by. > > Nevertheless, I'm a big fan of plain text; that's one reason I like Mu tt. > And even when I use the Seamonkey mail client, I have it default to pl ain text. > If you have plain text, you can very easily edit it into into anything you want. > Plain text is great but we do run into a problem when someone wants to add even the most basic of formatting to it. Take for example his is a list - Cow - Dog - Cat This is also a list * Cow * Dog * Cat and so is this + Cow + Dog + Cat That will come out in one line unless we (aka Dave or myself) convert it to: <ul> <li>Cow</li> <li>Dog</li> <li>Cat</li> </ul> Usually this is not a big deal but it prevents end to end automation. What leads to most work is when someone *doesn't* pick a standard. We have had lots of examples where plain flowing text is mixed with html, with pre-formatted text, with what looks like markdown. This can take hours to sort out. So if there is any formatting in the text, it makes it a lot easier to process if we pick a standard and use it correctly. But which of the thousands, and what right do we have to dictate a standard to anyone ? To me it seems logical that if it's going to end up in html5, but I fear I may be a minority of one on that one. Again badly formatted html takes me longer to sort out than unformatted text. Another option is to add a javascript WYSIWYG editor like the one in wordpress. However I fear that may not be very popular around here. - -- Regards, Ken Fallon http://kenfallon.com http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWaHb2AAoJECO2jUN3MRFpbH0QAKckSf2lkqkXHM79/rA+Eq0e l0C5aPax9hEOAQ0LoUgNXT1RL5WkrjrX0i+oApzgH0Ri+q0THGAshoCbyMRkfN+I VBkEoOCcFw2gjAPENqK2D2j+qgwk03NjeQXj66wC32jBjTeaip18W1rj2pJWyU3r Rj/A2VUde1CZDijyj3PNOTjGVmtAXBhuDiQMAlPGTJGNKt5X6HjWgKN36PkLz+9Z iCr7ZL1QmupVCsKRpKalFhgAVrd9M7pYuRaib1q+K4vRY6rf4BbDApqXe2z1IodX PUgU7Z59LZG8SuiwhPt4pQFfohp9a4eONIHY8A4Ro40tgDJFO1Sub0GF3nE0lTC0 RYI+hS7nMWFZqKU3PpRk8iJe/2tXHnRITTfTl//dkcW1anz8TqTC+qW9IKye00bp 3Si6zv0PykEpZCp2xVgMsvkf5FI5MjyQHryxkmI0d6hM3ijVjQFpR6vRV10E0loT oYl3NRmjR95c2DS6INoQ3Nsqll0QdPE/e+zRBdfT8KdOq1Y1+1OpxynbpSzECJje KEpPQK4dKlabHxfXC1APmOC9iELt5BXlB5pCv5htbiIbPxo4nnvWuE3y8nMRNHil CrHMRmo+cOIENU3983LaZRuVisjM3VRtzpOE2HHkWR3k/fIhIIC1i6E5J/WEbfFT JAgjdQ2ZfSTDFnxc0RfY =mV8z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
