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2007 Sep 27
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Math equations, and extensions in general
...ed by single characters, but
unless the Markdown spec specifically reserves a large set of
characters for this use this seems impractical to me. As much as I'd
like just using dollar signs to set off equations, I'm willing to
accept that extensions will have to be very slightly less plaintexty
than regular Markdown.
Square brackets seem to be the standard way to do special span
formatting. Images set the precedent of using a prefix character for
a special "type" of square-bracket span, so `$[\{ x \mid x^2 \in S \}]
` might be an appropriate encoding.
The footnote exten...