> I am wondering if I should abandon TW altogether now and save myself a
> whole world of pain. I cannot even check what has been rendered by the
> markdown formater because view source does not show me anything other
> than java script...

The TiddlyWiki syntax isn't much loved by everybody, but isn't /that/
bad. There's a pocket guide here:
http://tiddlypocketbook.com/

> Questions:
> * is ANYONE using Markdown successfully with TW?

I think Jeremy was using it extensively for TiddlyWiki5

> * Why does each wiki insist on reinventing it's own Markup - even if
> you just used wikipedia systax - why yet another markup? another a
> YAML - Yet Another MArkup Language

heh, it is painful. I quite like HTML.

There was an effort to build a union of all wiki markup languages:

http://www.wikicreole.org/

> PS - I am not a programmer and thus blissfully ignorant of Java, and
> happily so.

You might get a better response to your questions over on the main
TiddlyWiki list, given this is a smaller group for development of
TiddlyWiki:

http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

-- 
Paul (psd)
http://blog.whatfettle.com

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