On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Boris Le Ninivin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/21/2012 06:04 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> If your idea of an improved Markdown is one that starts with a doctype, >> I'm afraid it won't get very far (with users and implementers alike). > > I completely agree with that statment. The power of markdown is that it is > simple and natural. It's not simple and even less natural to put a doctype. > Even a shebang would be too much if markdown is to be spread among the > general public. Perhaps more to the point, Markdown doesn't undertake to output documents in the first place. It transforms email-like _blobs_ of plain text to HTML blobs. LQ _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
