ubi said:
shouldn't this be moved to some other mailing list?
i sent only one notification, of the series, and that was because i did not want to be seen as "dissing markdown" without giving a fair notice. and, for the record, i'm _not_ "dissing markdown". i'm doing what john gruber has always suggested, which is to make my own thing, with its own name. and, just for the record once again, i didn't need his instruction or permission to do that, because i was working on z.m.l. for many years before markdown. and i've continued to work on my system long after he pushed markdown out of his nest to make it fly. ***
I guess Markdown purists (is there such a thing?) may be annoyed.
if markdown purists want to be annoyed at something, i'd suggest they read my medium article from last year:
markdown considered harmful
https://medium.com/@bbirdiman/markdown-considered-harmful-495ccfe24a52 that article is eminently fair, but the internet knows that has never stopped some people from being "annoyed". *** i don't want to discuss any of the specifics of my system on this listserve, for various reasons, but i think i must correct a few misimpressions from the feedback here.
I don't know how I feel about having to add a ">" (which by your convention is a placeholder for [space]>[space]) for every line.
you don't have to put a " > " on every line; putting it on the first line will be sufficient... thanks for showing me i should've said that.
what if the block-quote text is not poetry?
z.m.l. offers two different block-quote tags: one retains the linebreaks, the other doesn't. even in the form where lines are rewrapped, there is a way to specify a specific linebreak should be retained. (it is the method that is used across the whole of z.m.l., so i didn't want to discuss it there in that one context; i will discuss it as a general rule, later on. but thanks for showing me it is confusing.) *** mofo said:
I do wonder if people would be willing to use the [space][tag][space] system though. E.g. when typing '>', will I be willing to tolerate having to add an extra space? Will be interesting to see how tolerable it is.
um, ok. if that is my biggest problem, i'll have huge problems and no problems, simultaneously.
Also what is a chunk anyway?
beyond markdown -- part 2 -- z.m.l. is built to be easy to
understand
https://medium.com/@bbirdiman/beyond-markdown-part-2-b3527d2b9dcf
any set of non-blank lines bordered by blank lines is a chunk. (though there will be a future wrinkle, in that there'll be occurrence of "empty" chunks, a result of splitting the file on double-linebreaks.)
Does that include header?
most definitely. headers will be fully discussed in part 4 or part 5.
I might find having to do that space thing to be annoying for headers
you always have the comfort of markdown as a fallback. *** ok, now let us not discuss this any more here... -bowerbird _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
