dean allen is gone

2018-01-23 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
g that eventually became the web.) textile was used by the seminal "movable type". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16183014 oh, and those who write for wikipedia?... you might wanna fix this little omission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Allen -bowerbird

an interesting throwaway line

2017-07-27 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
stly refused. this isn't a reading of tea-leaves. it is a sudden jarring appearance of tea-leaves in a place they have never ever appeared before now. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://p

bear design award

2017-06-08 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
apple gave a design award to "bear", a light-markup word-processing app. http://www.bear-writer.com https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/#bear -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist

re: Feed.TXT - A Free Feeds Format in Plain Text w/ Structured Meta Data and Markdown ;-)

2017-06-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
gerald said: > May I highlight the latest (and greatest) feed format aaron swartz in 2002 said: > http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss30 -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pa

beaker-browser supports light-markup sites

2017-05-26 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/tutorials/create-a-markdown-site.html -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: markdown rules / recommendations

2016-03-08 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
gerald said: > If you know another see what the brett terpstra says: > http://brettterpstra.com/2015/08/24/write-better-markdown/ -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/m

re: Manuscripts - New Book Format for Markdown

2016-02-23 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
should be ready "real soon now"... > http://markua.com > https://leanpub.com/markua/read > https://github.com/markuadoc yet another markdown flavor, specialized for book creation, from the humans at leanpub... -bowerbird _

re: New Static Site Theme for World (Literature) Classics in Markdown e.g. A Tale of Two Cities, The Trial, etc.

2016-02-16 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
my humble opinion. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: New Static Site Theme for World (Literature) Classics in Markdown e.g. A Tale of Two Cities, The Trial, etc.

2016-02-16 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
like moby dick (1.2 megs) in under a second, you've got awesome client-side power working for you. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

organizational bloat

2016-01-31 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
you can pretty much tell how much organizational bloat a company has by the complexity of its url structure > > https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/Xcode/Reference/xcode_markup_formatting_ref/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016497 -bow

re: markdown wiki for compiling documentation

2016-01-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
> http://gitit.johnmacfarlane.net -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

commonmark is used in the swift compiler

2015-12-03 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
> https://swift.org/source-code/#cloned-repositories > The source code for CommonMark, > which is used in the Swift compiler. > https://github.com/apple/swift-cmark ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pair

crowd-sourcing for a new javascript browser-based prose editor

2015-08-04 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
ight be one of the best people to write this javascript code. more: > http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing.html > http://prosemirror.net -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https:/

markua -- a new flavor for long-form documents

2015-07-09 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
ogether: > http://zenmagiclove.com/simple/do-markua.html that uses marky, brett terpstra's rad web-based converter, which in turn uses multimarkdown, so the resultant .html will _not_ be accurate according to markua... but it will give you a rough idea. > http://

re: does fireball markdown support anchor links?

2015-07-09 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
aristotle, your mockery entertains me immensely. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: does fireball markdown support anchor links?

2015-07-09 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
d energy by even trying. don't even discuss it. pretend it doesn't exist. (that's something all the flavor-makers can do!) i would suggest we have reached this point. thank you for your question, original-poster... -bowerbird ___ Markdo

re: does fireball markdown support anchor links?

2015-07-08 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
_look_at_ the anchors to see what they are, which defeats some of the purpose of auto-generating them in the first place. oh well... i'm not even going to suggest that the flavor-makers try to come to an agreement, because we all know that they aren't gonna change what they already do.

that's an endorsement

2015-06-01 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
interesting to see asciidoctor.org has this quote from linus torvalds... > Use AsciiDoc for document markup. > Really. It's actually readable by humans, > easier to parse and way more flexible than XML. > — Linus Tor

kudos and major props

2015-05-13 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
you come up with any ideas for slick and inventive uses? not that it needs any, it stands on its own just for being clever, but if it has any additional functionality, i'd love to hear about it. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Mar

re: people are doing interesting stuff (more)

2015-05-13 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
http://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/#HY+xcsQwCER7f8V2aZIr8kfIwhZzEngEOc/9fdB1sMPuPkgrGk/+crgNNmXczXKra1xSNNETLkM6zW9gM+1vSKCKX53eDlGXyiD8/lyUrkHzWe1WcJWw+di2vBbHNa1QSbPach+H7H89EAYZdEo6m93IPs+WIWcLFN4TIaN3652KTQp58Sd4UbG+ZJoO1lhk1Atn1ecJiZZRjJiUUjSKxdz5iKxf6s7+2P4B and here's someone who's done

people are doing interesting stuff

2015-05-13 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
http://channelurl.com/show/1f8b080084a9535500037d53c1929b300cbd6726ffa09e369b21ec7d3bfd924e0f06447031166bc9c9f2f7956cd24d2fe502587ad27b4ff28ab40604971006f2f10a3e0a2664b16f963c8ec7c38fff3ec7c3f120936710fc1438f9088b4bf340f70823a5c5c92b689085120e5a1d6442c86d6a43db808b0380c131424ff1864934c94e07cf6b709b

markdown in a medium editor clone

2015-05-12 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
markdown in a medium editor clone: > http://ionicabizau.github.io/medium-editor-markdown/ -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

pandoc fully exposed online

2015-05-08 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
finally... > https://github.com/osener/markup.rocks -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: never to late

2015-05-07 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
i said: > hey, it's never to late to muddy the waters! see? if this listserve were stored in github, i could correct that error to "never too late". thank goodness for github... -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing lis

re: Awesome Books (in Markdown)

2015-05-07 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitenberg-project > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214564 -bowerbird p.s. gitenberg could also be using "markua", which is scheduled to release an update on the alpha version of itself sometime _today._ markua is to be a markdown-inspired flavor that will be spec

re: Awesome Books (in Markdown)

2015-05-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
mistakes led to the decline and fall of the world's very first great cyberlibrary. 50,000 e-texts now, but a shadow of itself. > and for Leanpub you get the rendered book > but not the source. yeah, i've often thought that that'

re: Awesome Books (in Markdown)

2015-05-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
gerald- gosh, i think that's the second time i've called you "gerard", instead of _gerald._ my apologies, again! -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailm

re: Awesome Books (in Markdown)

2015-05-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
t as the foundation for my z.m.l., a light-markup that _targets_ long-form. so, you know... if you want examples, project gutenberg has 40,000-50,000. -bowerbird p.s. leanpub.com has a bunch as well. and the guys over there are, right now, developing "markua", their own flavor of markdow

caddyserver.com

2015-04-28 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
web once again, like it was before the tech burden drove people to the nice simplicity of silos like facebook and twitter. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

js syntax highlighting for markdown (not for codeblocks in markdown)

2015-04-24 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
what it is -- precisely -- that you want... -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

fiddle.md

2015-03-25 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
y comparative reviews by actual hardcore users. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

wrapping it around

2015-03-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
i thought when i made z.m.l. that we were at the very end. now, though, the new york times has wrapped it back around with the debut of "archieml", or "aml". i worry that this means we are destined to go through the entire alphabet again? -bowerbird p.s. i apprecia

re: serving markdown directly : any suggestions?

2015-02-04 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
it makes it too easy to remove inconsistencies between all the different "flavors" if your users know exactly which converters are being used, so compile yours so it is as obscure as possible. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing lis

re: serving markdown directly : any suggestions?

2015-02-04 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
d to place a bet, it would be on client-side javascript... -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

mou makes its funding goal for a 1.0 release

2014-11-09 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
's coming, in a sufficient way so many users will end up paying. but maybe i'm wrong? -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re:

2014-10-31 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
eekend. have a nice november. have a nice 2014... -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

the issue with markdown was that it was too simple

2014-10-27 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
references, indexing, callouts, source code examples, etc. All of which Asciidoc does in a format that is just as easy to write. if you want to correct someone, correct scott chacon. he said it, not me. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing lis

re: Using fragment identifiers with Markdown docs

2014-10-24 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
ut there's no reason such functionality can't be offered. indeed, it's easy. john macfarlane asked, a while back, how to do it, and i gave him the 4-point pseudo-code... https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2014-August/003110.html -bowerbird

just announced

2014-10-23 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
this was just announced, from the folks who do leanpub.com: > http://markua.com in a related note, i have finished my "beyond markdown" series... > https://medium.com/@bbirdiman/beyond-markdown-part-11-444393af1ed0 i put up a web-app as a playgro

maybe we should discuss it

2014-10-08 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
/ -bowerbird p.s. by now, you might have figured out that you can search twitter for "beyond markdown". ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: let us not discuss that here

2014-10-03 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
it a while, and apply yourself. in fact, i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if google can already grok unstructured text, because they have the firepower to solve it. heck, i'm merely a garage hacker, and i have achieved much of the solution all by myself. this "light-markup" sta

re: let us not discuss that here

2014-09-30 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
oh, crap, i forgot to mention that "beyond markdown -- part 4" is now available for your perusal. ;+) > https://medium.com/@bbirdiman/beyond-markdown-part-4-9b4dc6841d7e if you'd like to discuss anything, send me an e-mail. thank you. -bowerbird p.s. and if yo

re: let us not discuss that here

2014-09-30 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
n on-topic post (by someone who also posts here), but, heck, i'm not a moderator, so what do i know? -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

let us not discuss that here

2014-09-29 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
ll be a future wrinkle, in that there'll be occurrence of "empty" chunks, a result of splitting the file on double-linebreaks.) Does that include header? most definitely. headers will be fully discussed in part 4 or part 5. I might find having to do that space thing

money for mou

2014-09-29 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
interesting to see if there is any demand: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mou-1-0-markdown-editor-on-os-x-for-you -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo

september is still the cruelest month

2014-09-25 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
as the dodgers clinched the national league west. in other news, the yankees were eliminated from the playoffs. nontheless, re2pect to the captain... -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

clarification of terms would be a good thing

2014-09-23 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
her side _are_not_. start with commonmark. markdown? or not? -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

big companies and bloated code

2014-09-16 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
code. argh! so if i do end up offering such embedding, it'll be with a big dose of warning to users. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: wysiwyg and light-markup are oil and water

2014-09-12 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
ting and content > can be resembled in Markdown and > Marko Editor only takes from a paste > what it can handle, so again what you see > after a paste in the editor is what you get right there you will have violated one of the main e

re: wysiwyg and light-markup are oil and water

2014-09-12 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
ze components, for even more flexibility, but it's hard to say if it's worth it... A red 'box' in the output screen shows where the part that the input screen is showing. some good code will sync input and output when you want. -bowerbird __

re: wysiwyg and light-markup are oil and water

2014-09-11 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
. even medium, with all of evan william's money, cannot work it well for more than a meager handful of features. i'm not going to review the attempts, because it would be overly cruel and i sincerely wish 'em good luck, but as far as i can see, it will take some big breakthroughs.

wysiwyg and light-markup are oil and water

2014-09-11 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
erything you need to do before you even start to think about coding. if you want to take on the hardest thing first, figure out how to successfully allow a paste from an arbitrary ms-word file... good luck... -bowerbird p.s. even if you solve that fundamental gap, you will also discover that &q

the basic gruber markdown basics

2014-09-11 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
# THE GIST OF MARKDOWN'S FORMATTING SYNTAX ### an adaption from text by John Gruber ## PARAGRAPHS A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines. Normal paragraphs should not be indent

the trains are already leaving the station

2014-09-08 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
Mark.NET hopefully the commonmark team will vet these converters, to ensure they're currently accurate and will be maintained -- not just to give correct results, but also _work_ correctly -- and prevent a flock of "me-too" forks muddying the waters... a soli

on the curve

2014-09-07 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
, befitting the mental gymnastic flexibilities of a professor of philosophy. now wipe that clean and do it again, with the object of plotting a curve which is _simple_, and beautiful, and lean, and elegant, and graceful. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss

on syndromes and naming and "promotion"

2014-09-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
of dicknose atwood-and-company. unfair, sure, but it reveals the depth of resentment. lots and lots of people. and they _want_ a solution. i knew that resentment would manifest _eventually_ -- as y'all know, since i've predicted it right

fast sailing on the way to a clearer model

2014-09-06 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
atible interpretations, it's because they weren't operating with the same mental model, so those incompatibilities are sign-posts to spots that need work. and the work is _not_ in the simply resolution of a decision-fork, but rather an understanding of how those developers ended up in two se

clear model, clear sailing

2014-09-05 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
ze and correct flaws... > But with all the diverse language ecosystem we have, > and with the varied needs of different communities > using Markdown, that seems quite difficult to achieve. it will be quite difficult for markdown to achieve that, yes. > I'd call that impossible. maybe even "impossible". but it's within reach for light-markup with a clear model. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

when rational discussion was still a possibility

2014-09-05 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
erve. and i'm fine with that. but when _nothing_ happens in such a noticeable way, i'm gonna notice it, and i'm also gonna comment on it. because that's what an outsider does. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

let's chat about tables

2014-09-05 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
are still fighting? are you folks plumb crazy? -bowerbird p.s. i find it perplexing that people, including gruber, apparently, think the plot was hatched on this listserve. perhaps i missed it, but when did jeff atwood _ever_ post a message here? when? other than macfarlane, none of the pri

september is the cruelest month

2014-09-03 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
s are 5 games back for a wild-card slot, with 6 teams involved in that race, meaning that jeter might get no post-season play his final year. but at least there will be an apple announcement. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Mar

that's pretty close to what i've done

2014-08-29 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
# that's pretty close to what i've done gerald said: > I'd say using a webcomponent (custom HTML element) > with an HTML import should get you (almost) there. yes, that's pretty close to what i have done: > http://zenmagiclove.com/misc/s/sid

now let's take another step forward

2014-08-29 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
# now let's take another step forward now that we've got something straightforward put into place, let's see if we can stretch a bit. first, though, let's do the error-correction thing. ## table of contents autotoc ## bowerbird made a mistake, and apol

what i meant by "simple"

2014-08-27 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
gt; which line of the input source the cursor is on, > but presumably this is possible. 1. get location of the editfield cursor. 1. get copy of text up to the location. 1. put the copy in a dummy textarea. 1. use dummy height to compute line. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

simple sample side-by-side setup

2014-08-26 Thread bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss
# simple sample side-by-side setup there are so many light-markup editing environments out there these days that it takes a good deal of time to evaluate which one might be right for you. and even after you've done that, you might wish some of its features were slightly different. the good news

here are some opinions

2014-08-18 Thread bowerbird
cifying the exact converter they use, should be shot. *** john macfarlane is one of the heroes of light-markup. *** it will be fun to hear what fletcher has to say these days. *** it will be fun to hear what gruber has to say these days. -bowerbird ___

a good sign

2014-07-11 Thread bowerbird
eem to be showing the tendency even today!:+) have a pleasant weekend! -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: How often do you use inline images? wrapper is really useful?

2014-03-07 Thread bowerbird
ed with, and thus _know_ treats your input correctly... hopefully, when the world decides to go "all-in" on light-markup, we will discard markdown and choose a non-fragmented format. (i would rather say "naturally" than "hopefully", but, regrettably, we rarely do the right thing when we make this kind of decision.) -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: How often do you use inline images? wrapper is really useful?

2014-03-06 Thread bowerbird
use. i'm actively developing in this arena, if anyone wants information. -bowerbird p.s. and if you want to sell your e-books, there's always leanpub, as well as softcover.io, a brand-new entrant on the e-book scene. p.p.s. the coolest markdown-related shit out t

re: How often do you use inline images? wrapper is really useful?

2014-03-06 Thread bowerbird
s do _anything_ consistently -- including simple rendering of content in the manner specified -- so you might run into the occasional exception on this issue, sadly. meanwhile, sensible people are formulating more sensible criteria, so when the dinosaurs go extinct, we'll leave that nonsense

re: yet more harmful

2013-11-24 Thread bowerbird
christoph said: Thanks for that article, bowerbird, I found it quite entertaining. you're welcome. i'm glad. *** i wrote the "harmful" piece as my personal "goodbye", to markdown in general, and this listserve in particular. so i'll answer here, but l

re: more harmful

2013-11-22 Thread bowerbird
whatever he likes, plus his notes app has made him lots more money than any markdown work would've paid him. so society's message to him seems _clear_. > I like Gruber on daringfireball, personally. > I suspect he does too. so do i. it keeps him out of trouble.;+) > Yeah, true. truth is a fantastic destination to arrive at. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

markdown considered harmful

2013-11-22 Thread bowerbird
i don't talk about people behind their back. >https://medium.com/the-future-of-publishing/495ccfe24a52 -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

a little higher complexity

2013-10-02 Thread bowerbird
you can really sort through that ugly thicket, then your talent could be put to much better use, solving the trouble in the middle east, or even the u.s. congress. -bowerbird p.s. of course, if this is merely one nifty mental exercise, because jigsaw puzzles are too boring, then by all mea

that ship has sailed, and those islands are under water

2013-09-27 Thread bowerbird
ken for a very long time now. so long that a new breed of freedom has emerged... people can now do anything they like with markdown, precisely because it _Is_ already broken, irretrievably, so nobody has to ever worry again about "breaking" it. that ship has sailed, and those islands are

re: newbie seeks repo for markdown

2013-09-10 Thread bowerbird
er flavor, which means that you're going to encounter problems when you collaborate with another person (or yourself, at a future point in time). so even if your needs are indeed being serviced _now_, you are likely to find there will be glitc

re: newbie seeks repo for markdown

2013-09-10 Thread bowerbird
, but you can keep in mind that it often goes on sale.) there are other great markdown-related mac apps, including "texts", "textastic", "mou", and many more, most of them so inexpensive that you will not regret buying them to throw a few bucks to the developers for c

what this has to do with markdown

2013-07-07 Thread bowerbird
there is so much more dangerous, as the money is _staggering_, so don't even bother to wonder if any of the big corporations will ever change. and once humans go extinct, it will not really matter if, once upon a time, somewhere along the line, someone had their italics messed up because o

fan_fucking_tastic

2013-07-05 Thread bowerbird
fan_fucking_tastic. somebody hit another one of the dead skunks on this road. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: dead skunk in the middle of the road

2013-06-21 Thread bowerbird
tom said: I was a bit disappointed when this little posting didn't rhyme. With apologies to the author, I've touched it up a bit: no apologies necessary, tom. you've done an extremely fine job! except for those ugly uppercase letters, i accept all of your edits. :+)

dead skunk in the middle of the road

2013-06-21 Thread bowerbird
but none of the people on the road crew seem to want to move it off of the road... "just drive around it", they say. yeah, right. -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/li

the will of the people

2013-05-01 Thread bowerbird
but once your "simple" bites them in the butt, badly, they'll see it was a mistake to jump in the quicksand. as markdown continues to become more prevalent, the dissatisfaction it generates will grow alongside. and it was all so easy to predict. and thus sidestep. but nobody

the problem is intractable, and perhaps insoluble

2012-11-26 Thread Bowerbird
my sincere and embarrassed apologies for that message just now -- which was supposed to go to the project gutenberg listserve... if someone has the ability to delete it (and this), i would request and appreciate that action. once again, my humble apology for my error. -bowerbird

the problem is intractable, and perhaps insoluble

2012-11-26 Thread Bowerbird
i'm not sure why i work so hard to be accurate and fair when i'm discussing jim, when he in turn seems happy to engage in innuendo and outright _lies_ to slime me. some of the things he says are flat out 360-degree lies, so he obviously cares not even a whit for his credibility. which is why i fe

no.

2012-11-11 Thread Bowerbird
aristotle pagaltzis said: >No. i'd say that sums up this entire listserve in one word. -bowerbird___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

a new acceptance of a variety of (inconsistent) markdown implementations

2012-10-31 Thread Bowerbird
e, we're all light-markup), one who was planning on a nanowrimo push anyway, i feel a new source of vitality for a niche opening up. since babelmark sure makes it easy to go negative... -bowerbird p.s. it _is_ ironic that the eve of "the day of the dead" s

the future of markdown, according to whom?

2012-10-26 Thread Bowerbird
i am waiting to hear about "the future of markdown" according to john gruber, because as far as i can see, he's the only person who can determine that future... sadly, however, i think i _did_ hear about it from him, in that "i'm not gonna fuck with it" post from last week. i know i'm certainly n

the future of markdown, according to jeff atwood (and/or david greenspan)

2012-10-25 Thread Bowerbird
like history, the future is decided by the people who write it... >http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html by the way, if you want a form of light-markup which is still flexible enough to be molded, but will be _totally_ free of ambiguities and "edge-cases", and g

canonical

2012-10-19 Thread Bowerbird
john gruber said: >The canonical docs are those on Daring Fireball. boom. and there you have it, folks. game on!:+) -bowerbird p.s. y'all might wanna consider, however, that because the yankees just got _swept_, it might be the case that mr. gruber is merely feeli

re: very impressive

2012-08-01 Thread Bowerbird
my fault. somewhere along the line, i lost the "l" in ".html"... but ".htm" is also "legal", so you'd think github should grok it. maybe with that $100million they scored recently, they can write an apache mod_rewrite rule... woulda saved us a few listserve posts, just in this one instance we

very impressive

2012-08-01 Thread Bowerbird
jquery table editor in .html: >http://warpech.github.com/jquery-handsontable/index.htm -bowerbird___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

re: A better guide to Markdown

2012-06-19 Thread Bowerbird
mikkel bang said: >Is there a simpler, better designed guide to Markdown so, are you the snowboarder? for what purpose are you using markdown? -bowerbird___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mai

re: Is there anyone would like to hold a standard organization of Markdown syntax?

2012-05-30 Thread Bowerbird
one of my conclusions in my long post was that "markdown standardization ain't gonna happen". as i read fletcher, he came to the same conclusion in his long post, for pretty much the same reasons. honestly, if it was gonna happen, it already woulda. requests will persist, and might well even inc

re: Is there anyone would like to hold a standard organization of Markdown syntax?

2012-05-30 Thread Bowerbird
i did write a long post in response to this thread... but i guess it's best to just let this listserve wither. -bowerbird___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

ultimate markdown editor wishlistbowerbirdd

2012-05-08 Thread Bowerbird
i should probably just let this listserve die, but... *** anyway, it's that brett terpstra fellow again... >http://brettterpstra.com/my-ultimate-markdown-editor-wishlist/ -bowerbird___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.ne

re: a blade of grass cracks the sidewalk

2012-04-20 Thread Bowerbird
alan said: >Congrats on shipping a nice dingus, Bowerbird. i'm hoping someone with design chops takes pity on me, and contributes something that looks significantly better. but at base, it's just a 2-pane tool, so that's what matters. >It does indeed look like &g

a blade of grass cracks the sidewalk

2012-04-20 Thread Bowerbird
spring has sprung, so on this day of grass, i guess i just can't hold this back any more. >http://zenmagiclove.com/aarp2.py voila. a dingus for zen markup language. lighter than markdown. _and_ more powerful... i know. wha? go figure. not that it's a competition. supporters will love

where are the worthwhile markdown dingi?

2012-04-10 Thread Bowerbird
http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/dingus or this: >http://fountain.io/dingus or this, for restructured-text: >http://rst2a.com/create/type >http://rst2a.com/create/file if there are other worthwhile ones, please let me know. thanks. -bowerbird p.s. "

where are the worthwhile markdown dingi?

2012-04-09 Thread Bowerbird
where are the worthwhile markdown dingi? (dinguses?) i'm interested in any dingus that can take a "reasonable" amount of text -- let's say anything up to a megabyte -- and return the results in real-time, without a long wait... ideally it'd handle something more than gruber-minimum, and an a.p.

yet another markdown text-editing tool

2012-03-05 Thread Bowerbird
"interesting" to see gruber mention yet another markdown text-editor program -- this one with just a little gimmick -- when he has never even acknowledged on his blog fletcher's far-superior app... gruber really does hate multimarkdown! -bowerbird___ Ma

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