On Thu, Apr 24, 2025, at 07:05, Eric Rescorla wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote: >> I find the second form (NSNL or OSPL) to be way more readable. >> I have no idea what I should feel annoyed of. > > This seems like a great example of "people have different tastes". > > And unlike software where there is a lot of value in multiple people > being able to work on the same code base and style issues get > in the way, the number of people actively editing the same > Markdown file is quite small, so is there any reason we can't > just let people do their own thing, with perhaps some text > somewhere about the impacts of those choices?
While I personally agree with Carsten, I can recognize that as a personal preference thing. (I recently moved from wrapped text to clause-per-line and find that it works better with revision control systems.) I think that Ekr's point here is the only reasonable outcome of this discussion. The group of people working on a document can set some norms. I do think that it is useful to have the markdown source formatting retained as much as possible in XML (and HTML, because why not), because that makes it easier to detect changes, but that's inconsequential. _______________________________________________ rfc-interest mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
