On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:03 PM, bucephalus org <bucephalus....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there! > (1.) > It may sound awkward, but I would like to use comments in Markdown texts. > According to the rule that proper HTML works as HTML, I should be able to > use > <!-- blablabla --> > But the converters I use do strange things with comments. Is there an > official rule about that?
As you can see here [1], most implementations pass comments through. [1]: http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=<%21--++blablabla+--> > > (2.) > I wonder if there is a recommended standard file extension for Markdown > source files. > For my own files I always use `.markdown`. > But other important sources seem to prefer `.text`. > Do you have an opinion on that, or is there even a standard? > This has been a hotly debated topic in the past and IIRC J. Gruber (the creator of Markdown) has indicated that he will not support a standard and he personally uses '.text'. However, most projects I'm aware of use '.md' or '.markdown'. Personally, I prefer '.txt' or '.text' but notice what happened when I requested that github work with that [2]. [2]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/230 -- ---- \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| Waylan Limberg _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
