When I first started to write MultiMarkdown, I hoped it would become obsolete when the official markdown spec included footnotes and possibly tables. Then I added a few other features, and it also became clear that Markdown wasn't going to evolve any further in an official capacity.
Which is not necessarily a bad thing. The basic markdown syntax is good. We all use it because we think it's the best markup language out there, and those of us who extended it do it because we think it would be the perfect markup language with just one or two new features.... That doesn't mean that the core markdown syntax needs to add those features. What I would like to see is the following: 1) Fix the syntax specification for the one or two edge cases that lead to unintentionally different outputs from various markdown implementations (e.g. nested lists). It would be nice to have a stamp of approval from Gruber on this part 2) Develop an opt-in "consortium" or whatever that would allow the most common add-on features (e.g. footnotes) to have a well thought out specification that could be consistent across those markdown implementations that wanted to include them. This would not be interpreted as an official "markdown 2.0" or anything like that - simply that it would be nice if the various markdown derivatives could be as cross-compatible as possible. I suspect this list of new features would be rather short - there are likely several features in MMD, for instance, that don't need to be included in other flavors (e.g. citations, asciimathml, etc) The point is that each of these variant forms of Markdown evolved to scratch someone's particular itch. It would be nice to standardize the areas that overlap, but there's no need to limit the various alternative features that are only needed by a few people. Just my $.02.... F- -- Fletcher T. Penney fletc...@fletcherpenney.net _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss