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ok, i waited for 2 weeks, and still no votes -- none! -- on whether my posts are sufficiently on-topic, or not... and that basically confirms what i suspected all along, which is that no one really cares one way or the other. even the guys who put up the bitchy posts are probably just having a bad day, and they don't have a dog to kick, and the wife made 'em stop smoking herb, so they

i am considering writing converters between my "zen markup language' and "markdown", but i don't know which version of markdown to target. i'd think it'd be the "pandoc" version, and i understand that to be closest to "multimarkdown", but gruber has said he "disagrees" with "almost every part" of multimarkdown's syntax

so much for the markdown listserve grapevine... it ends up that there has been a markdown-savvy display-in-real-time app for a couple months now, by the name of "macchiato", coded by a college kid. > http://getmacchiato.com > http://kswizz.com/post/8624456381/macchiato > http://mac.onedayoneapp.com/macchiato/ > http://shawnblanc.net/2011/08/macchiato/ >

brett terpstra continues his obsession with markdown... > http://fuckyeahmarkdown.com/ there's also a g-rated version: > http://heckyesmarkdown.com/ brett has accomplished more in the last three months than this listserve accomplished in the last three years. and it looks like he's only just getting started... meanwhile, fletcher is about to send off his rocket, which

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While I empathize with your predicament, I generally prefer not to have expletives in my inbox. Also, what has this to do with markdown? On Jul 5, 2013 7:20 PM, "bowerbird" <bowerbird at aol.com> wrote: > fan_fucking_tastic. > > somebody hit another one of the dead skunks on this road. > > -bowerbird > > _______________________________________________ >

allan odgaard said: > the specification seems fairly explicit: i must be badly misunderstanding something here, because it appears, to me at least, that mr. odgaard wants you to "standardize" on gruber's specification? that "specification" -- if you really want to call it that -- is so underpowered that such action would be laughable. > I think there are

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

sherwood said: > If agreement is reached, then the group > looks at variants 6,7,8,9 and inquires > if they would like to join in this effort. well, that kind of leveraged consensus would have been the way to go about this process a year ago. but not today. > Has anyone collected a would-be canonical list > of either the ambiguous cases in original MD, >

nick said: > http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ exactly. thanks for writing it up, nick. the only thing i'd add is the notion that tables should be copyfit to the viewport. if the viewport gives you plenty of room, give the columns some breathing space. if not, tighten them as much as needed. *** > http://readown.googlecode.com/ cool. now how about an

i am waiting to hear about "the future of markdown" according to john gruber, because as far as i can see, he's the only person who can determine that future... sadly, however, i think i _did_ hear about it from him, in that "i'm not gonna fuck with it" post from last week. i know i'm certainly not _expecting_ any more from him. he's met his

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i'll be doing some experiments myself, but i thought i'd ask here first about back-translation and round-tripping with markdown and its xhtml output. the object is to take markdown output, reduce it back to a markdown text-file, then regenerate the output again and compare it with the "original" output, repeating if necessary until there exists a pair of files that give perfect

ok, while i was in the process of writing that last post, fletcher and john weighed in themselves. that's good. i can say some things that they can't, though, so i will. fletcher told you how multimarkdown is booming, and it was an impressive list. what you might not realize is, he _undersold_ it. it is even bigger than he described, and it's gonna _double_ in size in the next

this is fascinating: > http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/05/markdown-uti i don't know (and don't care about) any possible significance of such a pronouncement on a "uniform type indicator", but i think that it's interesting that gruber has decided to make _any_ type of statement on markdown, with the big moves now underfoot, and doubly so when he chooses to

fletcher said: > > If you're working on a long document, > > it's not realistic to expect an as you type live preview - > > the performance just won't be there. i said: > i'll wait to challenge you on this assertion until i see > just exactly how well my app works in such situations. i've now done tests, and can conclusively

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"multimarkdown composer" has been out for 4 weeks now, so let's mosey on over to the app store to see what it says... "composer" is #184 in productivity apps, a bit disappointing, considering that it was in the top-20 when it first came out... it's gained only 5 reviews over the 18 it had right off the bat. perhaps even more surprising, to some, is that

seumas said: > What confuses me is what > this all has to do with markdown. david said: > I find discussion of techniques for > building Markdown parsers very interesting. i can justify myself. indeed, it's a good exercise every so often, just to ensure that your position and directionality are focused. but it's not right, or fair, that every month, someone

they say that deaths come in threes... for me, it was these: 1. scott wannberg, los angeles poet, one of my favorite performers 2. michael hart, founder of project gutenberg, icon and iconoclast 3. steve jobs, seemingly the only guy who made stuff work correctly i'm sure that for others, dennis ritchie is on their list, for his own trio: 1. c 2. k&r 3. unix godspeed to all