On 7 Apr 2014, at 9:53, Rob McBroom wrote:
On 6 Apr 2014, at 11:36, Kee Hinckley wrote:
But it’s allowed me to do things like add automatic
syntax-highlighting to code blocks, and support tab-delimited tables,
and otherwise extend my email in ways which make my work much easier.
If someone were to view the plain-text of those messages, or even
reply to them, they wouldn’t get exactly what I got, but they’d
get something perfectly readable–that’s the basic nature of
Markdown.
…unless they use MailMate to read the plain-text part, in which
case, it will detect `markup=markdown` and run your text through its
internal processor, which won’t always handle it correctly.
No, that's my point. The whole idea behind Markdown is that readable
even if *not* processed. So the fact that one markdown processor
supports a couple extra features doesn't matter. What you see still
makes sense.
If I send you some code-fenced Python and you don't see it with syntax
highlighting, that's fine. It's still formatted correctly and perfectly
readable. If I paste in some tab-separated content, you see
tab-separated content. That's fine. Yes, someone viewing the HTML will
see a prettier version--but that's what HTML is for._______________________________________________
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