On MojoMojo, which also uses Markdown, we use the <del> tag. And example of how that's rendered is at http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/howtos/android#Backup_.2F_sync
-- Dan http://wiki.dandascalescu.com On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:45, John MacFarlane <[email protected]> wrote: > +++ 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 > _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
