In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Seumas Mac Uilleachan <markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> wrote:
>david parsons wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> <markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> wrote:
>>> however, implementers can reach agreement easily,
>>> by leaving users out in the cold, brushing them off
>>> with a "you will need to follow the spec" which seems
>>> -- if i understand markdown's cornerstone correctly --
>>> to be outside gruber's comfort range for his creation...
>> If a user says "I want paragraphs to start with an explicit
>> paragraph symbol and all newlines to force a <br/>" , I *will* brush
>> them off with a "you will need to follow the spec" because that's not
>> how Markdown works. I can't imagine any other way to actually write
>> the language.
>[...] What we care about is that the original intent of our written
>source is maintained.
I'm not surprised when
1986. What a great season.
generates a list item, because the existing spec tells me that
``[...]a _number-period-space_ sequence at the beginning of a line[...]''
will trigger an ordered list.
But what's the intent of ***hello*, sailor** ?
Should it produce
1. <strong><em>hello</em>, sailor</strong>
2. <strong>*hello*, sailor</strong>
3. *<strong>hello*, sailor</strong>
4. ***hello<em>, sailor<strong>
5. ***hello*, sailor**
6. <em><strong>hello</strong></em><strong>, sailor</strong>
7. <em><strong>hello</em>, sailor</strong> (which makes baby XML cry) ?
How about **Hello, sailor ?
Is it <strong>Hello, sailor, **Hello, sailor, or <em></em>Hello, sailor?
And how about _________cut here_________ ?
Formal specifications are written to avoid surprises in the
implementations; As a user (and there's no way I'd have written an
implementation if I wasn't a user) of the language I'd like to avoid
surprises when I go between the markdown documents on my website,
posts on my weblog, or posts on someone else's wiki and/or weblog.
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