+++ Arno Hautala [Jul 23 10 07:42 ]: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:27, david parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>I could have sworn that this was done using dashes. > >>-Apparently that's not so.- > > > > But how do would you visually differentiate that markup from > > regular hyphens in text? (There are already cases -- the lowly > > underscore springs to mind -- where the reference markdown does > > the non-obvious thing.) > > Agreed. How common is it to actually want to strike out text anyway? > I've clearly not done it much; thinking a non-existent feature was the > standard. > It's just not something that's useful or common enough to warrant > inclusion, especially when using actual HTML is a simple and effective > solution.
Pandoc supports strikethrough with ~~this syntax.~~ I have some regrets about the choice, because I don't think "strikeout" is a particularly natural interpretation of this markup. But using HTML isn't a great solution for pandoc, which supports many output formats. John _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
