Sounds fine to me. I'm not waging a campaign on behalf of MMD, or Scrivener in particular, even though they are really good. The central issue is compatibility/convertibility.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]>wrote: > There's a lot of posts about MarkDown and TW5 at the moment, so I'll reply > here with as much detail as I can, and then review the other threads. > > The situation is that: > > 1) TW5 wikitext is currently a blend of: > a) classic TW syntax for most basic formatting > b) MarkDown syntax for a few bits of basic formatting (code blocks, and > allowing HTML tags) > c) GitHub Flavoured MarkDown for a few other bits of basic formatting > (strikethrough, fenced code blocks) > d) new syntax for TW5's tiddler operations: transclusion, lists, widgets, > macros > > 2) My declared aim is to simplify things by adopting MarkDown-esque syntax > for all basic formatting syntax, extending it with TW5 specific syntax for > tiddler operations > > My motivation in adopting (more) MarkDown is to take advantage of its > familiarity to many users, and to permit the kind of interoperability that > Yitzhak describes. > > I'm familiar with MultiMarkDown. Much of MMD is oriented around page media > (footnotes etc), and isn't directly relevant within TW5, but there's > definitely some interesting stuff there. I'm not sure what I think of MMDs > table implementation. > > So, I think that the best way to interoperate with Scrivener will be by > restricting content tiddlers to a common core of MarkDown syntax. If one > wanted to publish that content both via TW5 and Scrivener, I'd expect to > have to wrap it in separate templates for each target. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:07 PM, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thursday, August 15, 2013 4:10:10 PM UTC+2, Yitzhak Bar Geva wrote: >>> >>> TW5's wikitext is lovely. It's convenient, expressive and all the >>> superlatives, but off the beaten track. Scrivener supports MultiMarkdown. >>> My problem (and I believe I'm not alone) is that I want to push the same >>> content out over different media and keep them synchronized. >>> >> >> Hi, >> As I wrote at github issues [1], I think Markdown[3] should be a valid >> subset of TiddlyWiki markup. ... but ... >> >> As you point out, Scrivener supports MultiMarkdown [2] which says at its >> homepage: >> >> MMD is a superset of the Markdown [3] syntax, originally created by John >>> Gruber. It adds multiple syntax features ... >>> >> >> So it adds "syntax features" that are needed by Scrivenger. I personally >> like Github and its GFM (Github Flavored Markdown) and pandoc [5] (for >> printing) that also adds its own usefull features and can handle a lot of >> syntax flavors. ..... >> >> With this list, I just want to point out, that there are several >> different usefull Markdown dialects out there. So IMO TiddlyWiki should >> include the minimum set of Markdown syntax that is still useable for >> "simple text". The rest can be plugins. >> >> IMO even Markdown as John Gruber designed it, should be a plugin, because >> this initial definition has some shortcommings, that all the other flavors >> tried to fix. We should not include them :) >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> have fun! >> mario >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/124#issuecomment-22705113 >> [2] http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ >> [3] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax >> [4] https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown >> [5] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWikiDev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywikidev/8OkKo-hn2Fs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Best, Yitzhak Bar Geva On LinkedIn <http://il.linkedin.com/pub/yitzhak-bar-geva/3/759/3ab> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
