Markdown Discuss - Sep 2011 - Metadata syntax (was Universal syntax for Markdown)

fletcher said:
>    For any consensus to come about, 
>    I think we need to agree on the 
>    fundamental purpose and philosophy of 
>    the consensus we claim to be interested in. 
it would be nice.

>    Otherwise many of these discussions will 
>    continue to occur without much hope of 
>    moving forward to any actual outcome/resolution. 
yep.

>    it's just a bunch of us sitting around 
>    explaining why we each think 
>    our own dog food is the best. 
uh-huh.   and what's really ironic is that you're
not even polling the general-public dogs you
hope will eat the food that you're putting out...

y'all seem to believe that they'll eat _anything_.

>    But in the meantime, MMD will continue to 
>    march forward
great to hear it!

>    a Mac OS X text editor with built-in MMD 
>   syntax highlighting, exporting, and editing 
>    that I hope to release in the next month or two
wha...   "the next month or two"?   what's the hold-up?

>    and I hope to put together a proof of concept 
>    native MMD parser for iOS (built using the same code 
>    as the desktop version) if no one else out there 
>    beats me to it (which would be a welcome turn of events!)
i don't understand why a parser has to be so hard...

-bowerbird
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Well if your dogs are like mine, they will eat practically anything.  Lately
in addition to their kibble they've been catching pocket gophers and mice.
A border collie is much less lovable with 'mouse breath'


Respectfully,

Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests

Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests --  http://Sherwoods-Forests.com
780-848-2548
50042 Range Rd 31
Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0




On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, <Bowerbird at aol.com> wrote:
> fletcher said:
> >   For any consensus to come about,
> >   I think we need to agree on the
> >   fundamental purpose and philosophy of
> >   the consensus we claim to be interested in.
>
> it would be nice.
>
>
> >   Otherwise many of these discussions will
> >   continue to occur without much hope of
> >   moving forward to any actual outcome/resolution.
>
> yep.
>
>
> >   it's just a bunch of us sitting around
> >   explaining why we each think
> >   our own dog food is the best.
>
> uh-huh.  and what's really ironic is that you're
> not even polling the general-public dogs you
> hope will eat the food that you're putting out...
>
> y'all seem to believe that they'll eat _anything_.
>
>
> >   But in the meantime, MMD will continue to
> >   march forward
>
> great to hear it!
>
>
> >   a Mac OS X text editor with built-in MMD
> >  syntax highlighting, exporting, and editing
> >   that I hope to release in the next month or two
>
> wha...  "the next month or two"?  what's the hold-up?
>
>
> >   and I hope to put together a proof of concept
> >   native MMD parser for iOS (built using the same code
> >   as the desktop version) if no one else out there
> >   beats me to it (which would be a welcome turn of events!)
>
> i don't understand why a parser has to be so hard...
>
> -bowerbird
>
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One idea: put any metadata at the *end* of the file.

(Nonstandard, but it's no problem for tools, and since it's not in a
reader's face, there is more flexibility to format that still meets
the sniff-test of "will a human reader balk".)

--Ian

sherwood said:
>    Well if your dogs are like mine, 
>    they will eat practically anything. 
>    Lately in addition to their kibble they've 
>    been catching pocket gophers and mice. 
>    A border collie is much less lovable with 
>    'mouse breath' 
gophers and mice taste _great_ to a dog --
a dietary delicacy for many millennia now...

it's your "kibble" they don't really care for.
its redeeming feature is that it's so _easy_.
but i bet there are several brands of kibble
which your dogs still turn up their noses at.

as the ad man replied, when asked why his
costly campaign hadn't moved more units
of the client's dogfood: "dogs hate its taste."

people are the same way.   they'll eat a _lot_
of things, including some that you consider
to taste _dreadful_ (e.g., ms-word), but that
does not mean that they will eat _anything_.

***

anyway, this conversation sounds confused...
aside from questions of philosophy, it seems
to me that there is confusion about just what
sort of metadata we're all talking about, and
how it's used, by whom, for what purposes...
and so on and so forth, and hmm baby swing.

but maybe i'm the only one confused...     :+)

you all seem like bright competent fellows,
so i'm sure you'll get it all worked out, so
i'm gonna go back to my sandbox and play.

have a nice day...

-bowerbird
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