On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Michel Fortin <[email protected]>wrote:
> Le 5-oct.-2013 à 9:18, Roopesh Chander <[email protected]> a écrit : > > >> Fix the doc then! It'll be self-consistent. > >> > >> It's a much less risky move to fix the user doc to match what the > parsers > >> have been doing for 10 years than change the parsers to accommodate the > doc > >> (and potentially have everyone go back and "fix" 10 years worth of > >> documents). > > > > Good idea. However, I'm not able to figure out what the doc can be fixed > to. > > Perhaps a small section about tabs at the start: "Markdown expects tabs to > be aligned to four spaces. If your editor puts a tab stop every four space, > using tabs to align things properly on screen will give the expected > results. Otherwise it's better to not use tabs at all unless your Markdown > parser has a setting to set the tab length to match your editor." > > Then also avoid mentioning "four spaces or one tab" anywhere. Just say > "four spaces" and let people infer the tab part from the little paragraph > on tabs above (and from their previous experience). That really sounds good. I'll take this idea. Thanks for the input. Issue filed: https://github.com/vfmd/vfmd-spec/issues/2 I think it's best that I just leave it at that, and refrain from responding to your other comments. Anyway, the problem we were discussing is solved, so that's a relief. Best regards, roop.
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