One thing to bear in mind is that Gruber's markdown.pl hasn't been maintained in years, and is riddled with rather odd bugs<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2013-June/002854.html>. You may want a different one even if you don't need the extra features.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:40 PM, bowerbird <[email protected]> wrote: > don said: > > at this time the classic markdown meets my needs. > > are you using "classic" markdown? or kramdown? > > kramdown is a great flavor. know what you're using. > > > > i was looking for advice on how best to install it on a mac. > > and you got some advice. on how to install kramdown. > > you could've gotten advice on installing multimarkdown. > > > http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/download/ > > or there are lots of other flavors. none is hard to install. > > > > advanced features are less important than > > having a reliable automated installation procedure. > > maybe i confused you, talking about "advanced" features. > > look at this page and you'll see that many of the options > kramdown offers can't really be called "advanced" today. > > > http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/options.html > > to start with the top one, header id's are "standard" today, > so markdown-converters are expected to generate them. > > (most especially since such id's will not cause any issues; > after all, it's not as if you're _required_ to use them at all; > but if they aren't created at all, then you _can't_ use 'em. > maybe more to the point, nor can people who link to you.) > > and gruber's "classic" markdown does not generate id's. > > of course, what you will probably discover, quickly, is that > the header id's generated by one flavor don't match those > which are generated by another flavor, which means that > you're going to encounter problems when you collaborate > with another person (or yourself, at a future point in time). > > so even if your needs are indeed being serviced _now_, > you are likely to find there will be glitches down the line. > > or hey, maybe not. return in 3 years if you wanna debate. > > -bowerbird > > p.s. but, bottom line, kramdown is as good as any flavor. > > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > -- This message has been encoded in 128ROT13 for security. If you are unable to view it, please consult an optometrist.
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