I’m not surprised that plus (+) is so uncommon. It doesn't look like a bullet and requires more work than hyphen.
Perhaps interestingly, however, my old experimental tool pmitool.com has a Markdown export mode that uses all three, because it generates lists of positive, negative, and neutral items. On Jul 27, 2017, 12:01 PM -0700, Wolfgang Faust <wolfgang...@gmail.com>, wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:16 PM, bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss > > <markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> wrote: > > > gruber posted about markdown > > > on his daringfireball blog, which > > > is rare enough to be noticeable. > > > > > > but it became fully remarkable > > > when its final sentence made a > > > passing reference to a possible > > > "update to markdown" event -- > > > as if such a revision isn't a thing > > > he's always steadfastly refused. > > > > > > this isn't a reading of tea-leaves. > > > > > > it is a sudden jarring appearance > > > of tea-leaves in a place they have > > > never ever appeared before now. > > > > > > -bowerbird > > Well, this is interesting! Here's the link, for easy reference: > https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/unordered_lists_in_markdown > Mostly it's a discussion of bulleted list styles, but the relevant quote is > in the last paragraph: > > But at the time, character-encoding mismatches were still a daily problem. > > Today, UTF-8 is sufficiently universal that using such characters in an > > update to Markdown would probably work out fine. > > -- > The views expressed above are exclusively mine, if anyone's. > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
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