Markdown is the new hotness in formatting.
Instead of open and close tags like SGML/HTML/XML your markup is done with
a single tag and indenting takes care of the rest.
eg.
#html
#head
#meta: content blah
#body
#container
lorem ipsum
#footer
Theoretically it's supposed to make it easier to format documents without
opening and closing so many tags. The elements and how they rendered are
selected at runtime from a cascading style sheet or other similar document.
I give it a year or two before it disappears, it's kind of a pain in the
butt when you need to string together multiple documents to create a single
document ala server side includes or any other active content.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On January 21, 2014, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
> > Just for kicks, I tried to convert the epub version of Linux Journal to
>
> > txt. It mostly worked, but the source code snippets lost all their
>
> > indenting. Converting to markdown format worked a little better,
>
> > preserving the source code format, but then you have all the markdown
>
> > tags. Maybe that can be converted to a downloadable txt file. Will
>
> > keep you posted.
>
>
>
> Interesting experiment. I've never heard of Markdown format. I'd be curious
> to see the results of your tests. Of course, they still won't do me much
> good unless you can place the resulting txt file somewhere on the web where
> I can grab it. But it's interesting for the future, just the same. :)
>
>
>
> That does bring up something I was thinking of last night, though. See my
> next message... :)
>
>
>
> --- Dan
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 01/17/2014 11:18 AM, David Landry wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> That sounds good. How about a web site or a Snail mail address for
> > them? I
> > >> would like to do a bit of research to see if they're what I want to
> > spend
> > >> my money on. :)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Not sure about snail mail addresses, but I think these are the websites
> > for
> > > each of the magazines people were talking about.
> > >
> > > Linux Format:
> > >
> >
> http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/content/lp/digitalbundles/comp-linuxformat/
> > >
> > > (main site: http://www.linuxformat.com/)
> > >
> > > Linux User and Developer:
> > > http://catalogue-imagine.subscribeonline.co.uk/Subscription/linux-user
> > > (main site: http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/)
> > >
> > > Linux Voice:
> > > http://shop.linuxvoice.com/
> >
> > Surprised Linux Journal isn't on the list. It goes back a long time.
> > It's also one of the cheaper ones. http://www.linuxjournal.com. They
> > have pdf and epub. Are either of those two formats accessible to you?
> >
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