On Aug 18, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Boris Le Ninivin <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not an issue about markdown, but about Apple software. You should > write to Apple developers to ask them why they added some bugs (seriously, is > it supposed to be a FEATURE?!) in their code. If I want a full stop, I type a > full stop. If I want two spaces, I type two spaces.
Yes, seriously, it is supposed to be a feature. There's plenty of precedent for text editors that perform automatic substitution, as a convenience (smart quotes, fractions, etc.). Almost always it's a configurable feature, because this is an area where one person's convenience is often another person's PITA. Nothing surprising here; I don't see why you're so shocked. > Oh and while you're at it, ask them to remove all their sh**y DRM they fancy > everywhere in their products. Irrelevant flamebait. > Btw, there are a LOT of mobile devices that do NOT run on Apple software. Irrelevant flamebait. --Andy > > My two cents. > > On 08/18/2012 02:36 PM, Jason Davies wrote: >> On the suggestion for double-spaces, I share the general 'oh no'. I see an >> explosion of people with iPads etc trying out Markdown in education because >> formatting sucks on iPads. They struggle with needing new lines (see recent >> post for an example). In short, they struggle with white-space (invisible) >> mark-up. >> >> Added to that, frequently cut and paste leaves double spaces (eg in BBEdit >> which abandoned smart copy paste on this years ago in despair). Then perhaps >> most crucially, what about trying to type a double-space on an iPad? You >> will get a full-stop...! >> >> >> (just taking a chance to say thank you to JG and FP for Markdown and >> Multimarkdown. Years ago in OS 9 I had Nisus converting formatted to my home >> made mark-up through macros for editing on Palms, then when Nisus abandoned >> its macros, in LaTeX. But typing LaTeX on an ipad is a nightmare so now I >> can once again do what I did 15 years ago, which is type/edit books and >> articles on a mobile device...basically, if I do anything at all, it must >> pass through BBEdit at some point...;)) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
