On Feb 12, 2010, at 19:57 , Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jon Lang wrote:John Gabriele wrote:Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown] (and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO).[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ [Pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/I definitely prefer Markdown's approach to "inline markup" over POD's approach: e.g., _italic_ strikes me as much more legible than I<italic>.That's one of the things that's always annoyed me with Markdown; I think it should be *bold*, /italic/, and _underline_.
There's a school of thought, common among printing/publishing types, that insists that underline was intended solely to replace italics when they couldn't be represented (i.e. no fonts, as with ASCII terminals and printers). Thus Markdown's use of _italic_. (See also nroff.)
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