On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:25 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: >> It has never occurred to me that Markdown would be useful in the context of >> an email client. What's the idea, that I'd compose in Markdown and the >> message would be sent as HTML? > > Yep. I think it's a very good idea. It is, I think, how the TidBITS HTML > issues are (were?) prepared (the aforementioned HTML mailing list I am on). > They look great and don't have a lot of crap in them.
Yes, we write everything in Markdown (well, close to Markdown; we've extended it with lazy links so you don't need unique link identifiers), and the TidBITS Publishing System (our homebrew content management system) takes the Markdown of each article and creates a nice Web page, a very nicely formatted text issue, and an even more nicely formatted HTML issue (i.e., minimal styles and formatting; just enough, but not too much). I'm not entirely sure I'd want Markdown interpreted in email, though, since I write pseudo-Markdown all the time (given that Markdown was inspired in part by our structure-enhanced text format - setext - and that in turn took its lessons from common behavior in email) and I don't know that I want my email converted to HTML just because I made a bullet list with asterisks. cheers... -Adam Look into my head; follow me on Twitter. http://twitter.com/adamengst _____________________________________________________________________ Adam C. Engst: I publish TidBITS and Take Control, write books, [email protected] and make useful introductions in the Mac industry. My work: http://www.tidbits.com/ and http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
