On 24/03/10 02:20 PM, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
Given the paucity of ETS editors, viewers, enabled browsers however,
I'm afraid that I will insist on keeping my horse, at least until
there is more than two roads in town. My horse will eat hay. And who
knows where the next gas station is.
The bowerbird is half right. Elastic tab stops are worthy of
implementing. But to keep the transition cost minimal the older way
has to be supported also.
I can see merit in having MD understand elastic tab stops as part of
it's goal toward minimalist markup.
It certainly would make simple tables easy to do.
Respectfully,
Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests
Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests -- http://Sherwoods-Forests.com
780-848-2548
50042 Range Rd 31
Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0
If I understand the concept correctly, Markdown wouldn't really have to
know anything about ets. Their implementation would be up to the
browser-editor-ide-etc. All MD would have to worry about is tabs. If
there's a tab in the middle of three lines of text, adjust the text
after each tab to line up. If there's a tab in front of three lines of
text line up the three lines. If there's two tabs, indent it more. The
actual lining up is not MD's problem. Currently MD has the tab at the
beginning of the line stuff. A tab in the middle of a line shouldn't
affect MD at all, should it?
The actual implementation would depend on whether the font was
monospaced or proportional, again something MD doesn't care about.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, david parsons <[email protected]
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>sherwood said:
>> I don't understand.
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>what's to understand? :+)
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>> Are you saying that MD should recognize elastic tab stops
>> in a file and convert that to a html table?
>
>yes, that's what i'm saying, or at least part of it.
And this would convert markdown from a general-purpose writers tool
into some sort of boutique plugin. I can't really see that this
would count as an advantage to _anyone_ who currently uses
markdown.
-david parsons
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