On 12/28/06, John Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrea Censi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/27/06 at 7:11 PM:
>
> >In particular, what do you think of this (proposed) syntax for adding
> >meta-data to span-level elements?
> >
> >http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html#future
>
> 8.1. A syntax for specifying meta-data for span-level elements
>
> Your use of braces here is very likely to conflict with future
> extensions to Markdown itself.

About this, Michel Fortin referred to an old thread (2005) about
meta-data syntax.
I resurrected it and tried to summarize:

http://maruku.rubyforge.org/markdown_extra2.html
http://maruku.rubyforge.org/markdown_extra2.md

Any comment after so long time?

> 8.2. Comments.
>
> Why not just use HTML comments?

For one thing, if I have to write a one-line comment:

    <!-- Please, Mark, have a look at the following list -->

I need no less than 7 characters. Practically every language except
xml allows a
    <delimiter> <comment> <newline>
syntax.

For hiding a lot of text, I concede that the <!-- --> syntax is
sufficient, but is really overkill for short comments

-- 
Andrea Censi
      "Life is too important to be taken seriously" (Oscar Wilde)
Web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~censi
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