Kewl. If you look at a formatter like tidy, it's got a lot of options where you can turn certain behaviour on and off, making it much more useable for a lot of people. Wouldn't it improve the usability of Markdown if these kind of options were present?
J On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Michel Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 2008-07-17 à 16:41, Jan Erik Moström a écrit : > > Well, there is a good reason why Markdown doesn't do this. Many prefer to >> use a plain text editor which doesn't wrap text (I for example prefer my >> text files this way) and we insert hard new lines to keep the lines from >> becoming too long. If those hard newlines were translated into <br /> >> Markdown would be useless for a lot of people. >> > > That's one reason. Personally, I often generally don't write hard-wrapped > paragraphs... except inside lists and blockquotes where I wants things > aligned properly in the source text. > > For instance, I don't want my text editor to wrap automatically my like > item like this: > > 1. First item of a list with two lines worth wasted text > for your reading pleasure. > > So I indent correctly the second line to make it better looking and easier > to write: > > 1. First item of a list with two lines worth wasted text > for your reading pleasure. > > By doing this, I'm inserting a newline character at the end of each line. > If Markdown was adding a line break there, then I'd be forced to write the > bad-looking version, reducing readability of the source text. > > The same applies to blockquotes: > > > This and that and this and that and this > > and that and this. > > You couldn't indent each line with a ">" if Markdown was to convert every > newline to a `<br />`. > > > (and I don't think there is an option to get it to behave the way you >> want) >> > > > No there isn't one. > > > Michel Fortin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://michelf.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > -- Jurgens du Toit Cell: +27 83 511 7932 Fax: +27 86 503 2637 Website: www.jrgns.net If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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