Re: Macros?

2006-05-06 Thread Anton J Aylward
required!) So how to use Markdown (or textile or redcloth or whatever) in this context? Possibly repeated calls to Markdown with different restrictions. But that seems a hell of an overhead. I don't know if this better expresses thoughts and examples better. A. Pagaltzis wrote: >

Macros?

2006-05-02 Thread Anton J Aylward
Is there any way to do macros in Markdown? Or do you have any other suggestions? I'm thinking of a few uses. One is to read back system stuff that might be global or session settings. Example Tell the user where they are coming from, time etc You are %%USERNAME%% Logged in at

Re: Emphasis or Italic?

2006-04-29 Thread Anton J Aylward
Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > "Note that apparently /euphoria/ is properly spelled in lowercase > italics. When speaking the name out loud, LucasArts requests that you > lean forward approximately twenty degrees." What a dumb idea. You should lean your head to the right about 20 degrees, to simulate t

Re: Emphasis or Italic?

2006-04-29 Thread Anton J Aylward
Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > Jon Noring wrote: > >>That's the problem with italics and bold used in print -- they are >>used in a whole slew of ways, and oftentimes to discern why something >>is italicized requires understanding the context. If I were reading a >>book in an unknown language (and maybe

Re: Emphasis or Italic?

2006-04-29 Thread Anton J Aylward
Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > Jon Noring wrote: > >>This begs the interesting rhetorical question: in non-visual >>presentation, such as text-to-speech, how should and be >>aurally rendered to the listener? > > >>From another list (about writing systems), received -- oddly enough -- just > now ... >

Re: Emphasis or Italic?

2006-04-28 Thread Anton J Aylward
Jon Noring wrote: >>What's the difference between: >> >> emphasis and italicized >>and >> strong and bold > From a visual presentation viewpoint they lead to the same end-result > for nearly all browsers I know. But from a text semantic perspective, > they are quite different. > > Th

Redcloth is ..

2006-04-28 Thread Anton J Aylward
I've been looking at Dean Allen's Redcloth, which claims to incorporate both Markdown and Textile, as implemented in Ruby by _why. While the code is clear and readable, the boundary between markdown and Textile is not. The documentation says # By default, Redcloth uses both Textile and Markdown f

Emphasis or Italic?

2006-04-28 Thread Anton J Aylward
What's the difference between: emphasis and italicized and strong and bold It seems to subtle for my browsers. The only "difference" I've been able to find is that according to the O'Reilly book and are semantic tags, while and are physical, but, most browsers render them the same way