On 2010-01-24 06:55:58 +0000, Jan Erik Moström said:
On 10-01-23 at 07:38, [email protected] (Brent Simmons) wrote: >The syntax coloring makes the structure more evident and makes the >message more readable. It's a nice compromise between plain text and >HTML -- you get structure without the swamp of HTML. Exactly the thing I would like to see. No Markdown to HTML conversion, just adding structure to the text in a consistent way. Even if the recipient doesn't know about Markdown they will understand the formatting (with the exception of links).
Before HTML existed, people would write *bold*, _underline_ and /italic/, and also footnotes[0] aplenty[1].
People who cut their e-mail teeth on VT100 terminals or are USENET die-hards inevitably still do this. Oddly enough, and I very much doubt it’s a huge coincidence, Markdown’s basic syntax for inline stuff isn’t too far removed from all of this.
Interestingly, Thunderbird understands these conventions in plain-text mail and applies appropriate formatting (well, it is an NNTP client too, after all).
M. [0] Like this. See also [1]. [1] …and this. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
