Markdown Discuss - May 2009 - Hello. I'm new so forgive my ignorance of previous ideas.

One thing I thought might be useful for Markdown was logic that converted 
certain text to <del> tags.  Since Markdown is often used as a way to 
transfer information from email and there is a convention for simulating 
deleted text in email it might make a nice addition.

Example:

I really love^H^H^H^H hate you.

becomes,

I really <del>love</del> hate you.

[Reference](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace)

Thoughts?  Too specific?  Too geeky?  On target?  Nice Easter Egg?

John -

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, John Kipling Lewis <jklewis at umich.edu>
wrote:
>
> One thing I thought might be useful for Markdown was logic that converted
> certain text to <del> tags. ?Since Markdown is often used as a way to
> transfer information from email and there is a convention for simulating
> deleted text in email it might make a nice addition.
>
> Example:
>
> I really love^H^H^H^H hate you.
>
> becomes,
>
> I really <del>love</del> hate you.
Well, I'd say this is both easier to read and write than your example
above. As readability is a top priority and markdown allows raw html,
I don't see any need for a way to markup deleted text accept with raw
html - which we already have.

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Waylan Limberg