On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Seumas Mac Uilleachan <seu...@idirect.ca> wrote: > Since generally > where needed the extension can be custom defined, why do we need a > "standard" anyway?
For this reason I have been silent on this issue. [^1] > On 06/11/10 06:59 PM, Brett wrote: >> >> Here are the results from the limited data set provided. It looks like >> 'markdown' is the winner followed by 'mdown'. Third place is a tie between >> 'text' and 'md'. >> >> If usage sets a standard, then 'markdown' is the standard. However, I will say that standard or not, I doubt I will ever use "markdown" as a file extension. Call me lazy if you like, but I simply don't want to type that much every time. I prefer "txt" and if I must use something else (for example on github) I'll use "md". Truth be told, in many situations I see no reason for any special designation. Docs for my projects on github are written in makdown and all have "txt" for file extensions. Yes, they then display as plan text. I don't care. If github some day adds a feature where they figure out I'm using markdown and convert my docs to html, that's fine too. On the other hand, while something like [Github Pages] does need to know what markup language a document is written in, it shouldn't need to rely on a file extension for that info. As Github Pages is just an instance of [Jekyll] (of which there are many clones) and Jekyll source files all require [metadata], and the metadata is always in the same format regardless of the markup language used, then the metadata could easily include the markup language used regardless of the file extension. Hey, then I could use ".txt" for everything. I think I'll go file a bug report with Jekyll. [Github Pages]: http://pages.github.com/ [Jekyll]: http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/ [metadata]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter [^1]: I can't help but notice that the other implementors have been silent as well. I suspect that in part it is because we have all had this discussion before. For some, because we really don't care.And in part, because it really doesn't matter. It's the later for me mostly. -- ---- \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| Waylan Limberg _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
