On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:49:31 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >It's called "Markdown". It is interesting/neat because it uses "plain text" >formatting, such as we often use in email as its source and can reformat that >into HTML or XHTML. > >http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ > >I think it is interesting because I like the idea of using text which is >readable "as is", such as in ISPF edit or browse, and being able to use that >to create HTML for web pages. I got a pointer to it from "github", which is >something else that I'm looking at the possibility of using for something. But >I'm unsure of this other use, so I'm still mulling it over in my mind. > You do very much of this and you wind up with an abomination like "text/plain;format=flowed". I don't want processors that format my UNIX paths in italics because they see solidi; that see LRECL=6000 and assume it's a Q-P character entity; etc. The assumption that some unlikely character sequence is intended as markup, not literal, is too often wrong.
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