Hey Waylan, this is very helpful. Thank you!
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Waylan Limberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:03 PM, bucephalus org <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi there! > > (1.) > > It may sound awkward, but I would like to use comments in Markdown texts. > > According to the rule that proper HTML works as HTML, I should be able to > > use > > <!-- blablabla --> > > But the converters I use do strange things with comments. Is there an > > official rule about that? > > As you can see here [1], most implementations pass comments through. > > [1]: http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=<%21--++blablabla+--> > > Yes, you are right. It turns out, that I made a type error in my own tests. I didn't know this babelmark.bobtfish.net, and it is a great tool (even though some of the converters are quite outdated). > > (2.) > > I wonder if there is a recommended standard file extension for Markdown > > source files. > > For my own files I always use `.markdown`. > > But other important sources seem to prefer `.text`. > > Do you have an opinion on that, or is there even a standard? > > > > This has been a hotly debated topic in the past and IIRC J. Gruber > (the creator of Markdown) has indicated that he will not support a > standard and he personally uses '.text'. However, most projects I'm > aware of use '.md' or '.markdown'. Personally, I prefer '.txt' or > '.text' but notice what happened when I requested that github work > with that [2]. > > [2]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/230 > > O.k. This is interesting. I need to think about all that, but I suppose, I am not convinced in the end. I think, there should be some special standard other than `txt` or `text`. But of course, have a/no standard is more important than having my standard as standard, so I can live with that. Thank you, again, for your kind response. Cheers, Tom > > -- > ---- > \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| > Waylan Limberg > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss >
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