Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-12 Thread John Gruber
Jacob Rus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 1/7/07 at 11:27 PM: > 1. As soon as a word is used as a link, it's no longer possible to use > that word surrounded by brackets. Now this may not come up too many > times, but when it does, it'll be a pain for the author. This has never once come up for m

Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-12 Thread John Gruber
Jacob Rus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 1/7/07 at 5:57 PM: > This is a Bad Idea(TM) in my opinion. Because labels for reference > links are case-insensitive, this allows for all sorts of unanticipated > inconsistencies, without much tangible benefit. Sure, the extra pair of > `[]`s is a bit ug

Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-07 Thread Jacob Rus
Michel Fortin wrote: >> Wait, he does? That seems like a somewhat bad idea, likely to >> break all sorts of existing uses. How is someone supposed to >> write [sic], for example? > > Well [sic] would not produce anything special if there's no link > reference called "sic" to create a link

Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-07 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 2007-01-07 à 20:09, Jacob Rus a écrit : > Michel Fortin wrote: >> John Gruber wants to introduce the >> [single braket] syntax as a shortcut for reference-style links in a >> future version of Markdown.[^1] >> >> [^1]: That future is not so far away: the shortcut reference-style >> link syntax

RE: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-07 Thread Jelks Cabaniss
Jacob Rus wrote: > This is a Bad Idea(TM) in my opinion. Because labels for reference > links are case-insensitive, this allows for all sorts of unanticipated > inconsistencies, without much tangible benefit. Sure, the extra pair > of `[]`s is a bit ugly, but it's ugliness with the useful side ef

Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-07 Thread Jacob Rus
Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > Jacob Rus wrote: >>> John Gruber wants to introduce the >>> [single braket] syntax as a shortcut for reference-style links in a >>> future version of Markdown.[^1] > >>> [^1]: That future is not so far away: the shortcut reference-style >>> link syntax is currently implemen

RE: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-07 Thread Jelks Cabaniss
Jacob Rus wrote: >> John Gruber wants to introduce the >> [single braket] syntax as a shortcut for reference-style links in a >> future version of Markdown.[^1] >> [^1]: That future is not so far away: the shortcut reference-style >> link syntax is currently implemented in the latest 1.0.2 betas a

Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-07 Thread Jacob Rus
Michel Fortin wrote: > John Gruber wants to introduce the > [single braket] syntax as a shortcut for reference-style links in a > future version of Markdown.[^1] > > [^1]: That future is not so far away: the shortcut reference-style > link syntax is currently implemented in the latest 1.0.2

Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-05 Thread Andrea Censi
On 1/4/07, Michel Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 2007-01-01 à 19:02, Andrea Censi a écrit : > > Default ALD for classes of elements. For example, an header of > > level 2 inherits automatically the attributes of {header2}, if it > > is defined. > > I don't see the point for such a feature.

Re: Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-04 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 2007-01-01 à 19:02, Andrea Censi a écrit : > Happy new year! > > This is the revised revised proposal: > > http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.md > http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html > http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.pdf > > I wait for comments. Overall seems good, but I want to c

Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

2007-01-01 Thread Andrea Censi
Happy new year! This is the revised revised proposal: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.md http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.pdf I wait for comments. -- Andrea Censi "Life is too important to be taken seriously" (Oscar Wilde) Web: http://ww