On 4 Jun 2020, at 10:23, Jason Davies wrote:
like \*this\* if they want them to be visible (it will be interesting
to see if my markdown emailer passes that on safely to you all!
ah well, never mind;) [seen it on my phone, passed on the slashes]
Cheers,
Jason
Just to throw in another voice saying this is never going to work:
people talk as if these things are centuries old traditions but they're
not. When people used typewriters, they underlined to mean bold;
asterisks have been used in a number of ways since the invention and no
one has ever had th
On 5 Aug 2015, at 15:06, Tom Humiston wrote:
In short, Gerald, in the guide you're preparing I wouldn't mention
and in connection with Markdown's *em* and **strong** syntax,
because they're really for something else.
not to disagree with your point (but rather to agree: Gruber is careful
t
I suspect you'll find a link at the bottom where you can unsubscribe.
On 30 Sep 2014, at 20:36, Joel MaHarry wrote:
please take me off of this list as I am not interested
Digital and brand communications
...
While I don't disagree with these points, I don't think they are
necessarily *the* point.
Markdown is -- sometime-- used as Markdown, by which I mean I read it
raw and send it to people raw. But the vast majority of the time, it's a
lightweight mark-up language and - most importantly - a trans
On 9 Jul 2014, at 17:07, Fletcher T. Penney wrote:
Unless it were to receive Gruber's blessing, it would have to be named
something other than Markdown.
Really good summary Fletcher. I think unless someone steps up to create
Son of Markdown as a project, we should all live with your third opt
at is markdown is still a big, big
improvement on, well, not having markdown. Ironically (given it was
Gruber, who also used to help me out on the BBEdit list before
daringfireball was ever invented so I liked him before many of you:)),
it's the fragmented Android of the mark-up world.
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too.
We have multimarkdown. That's cool. Thanks Fletcher. And free or dead
cheap (Composer). I can do all kinds of things then export to LaTeX.
Cool bananas!:) This is what I dreamed of in the 90s with my Palm Pilot
and a keyboard.
# Short Ve
On 6 Jul 2013, at 0:16, bowerbird wrote:
fan_fucking_tastic.
somebody hit another one of the dead skunks on this road.
I recently joined the list and hope to get up to speed with the threads
so if you're going to share, can you at least provide some context about
what exactly you're going o
Boris Le Ninivin wrote on 18/8/12 at 13:59
I think that we should rather educate the users; teach them that
functional design is MORE important than graphical design, no matter
what the ads say.
A genuine reply. I teach courses on matters like this at
Master's level at a university in London,
Boris Le Ninivin wrote on 18/8/12 at 13:59
Well, while I agree with you that manual new lines are difficult to see
(not in vim, however, you can highlight them easily), and that they
should be considered for replacement by another syntax (maybe the LaTeX
\\)
Others have commented sagely on you
Boris Le Ninivin wrote on 18/8/12 at 13:42
You
should write to Apple developers to ask them why they added some bugs
(seriously, is it supposed to be a FEATURE?!) in their code.
You can turn it off...
Btw, there are a LOT of mobile devices that do NOT run on Apple
software.
But there is a
On the suggestion for double-spaces, I share the general 'oh
no'. I see an explosion of people with iPads etc trying out
Markdown in education because formatting sucks on iPads. They
struggle with needing new lines (see recent post for an
example). In short, they struggle with white-space (invi
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