Hi Rob,
I use markdown (and also coded up the initial markdown support in Leo!)
because I'm used to it. It's a much simpler (IMO) language to work with
than RST for my needs. Plus, it's basically muscle memory for me.
As for the comments thing -- markdown doesn't actually have comment
syntax! The entirety of a markdown file is supposed to be human
readable /content/. The workaround is using HTML comments, because the
markdown spec states that a markdown parser shouldn't manipulate any
elements that it can't identify, instead passing them verbatim to the
finished document.
Here's the markdown spec if you're curious:
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
-->Jake
On 3/25/2016 2:07 PM, Largo84 wrote:
Edward's recent post about simplifying Leo prompted a question that
I've had for some time. How are markdown and reStructured Text
different, and more importantly, why (or when) choose one over the
other? My guess is that they are different 'dialects' of a similar
language, but with somewhat different rules. I also notice that the
output files (@clean or @file) differ in the handling of comment
sections depending on which @language is selected; @language md
creates comments as if the file were an xml or html file, whereas
@language rest creates pure rst comments (..) Maybe it's just a
personal preference, but others' insights on reasons for their choices
would be most welcome.
Rob..........
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