from another thread, relevant here ... Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > ... In retrospect I was far too influenced by Markdown back in 2011/12 > when TW5 wikitext was first being defined. >
Side note I want to make on just this point about Markdown. I remember when Markdown emerged (as an end-user / avid blogger) thinking "this is a godsend". But also, "this is likely to become a somewhat messy non-standard standard long-term" -- because its "just too easy." If you get what I mean? Indeed the "floppiness" in implementations and the many mixed in add-ins to them (many platform dependent) I think shows that point. IMO original Markdown really pushed forward an approach to being able to write and format in a way that still looked like normal writing. But it wasn't on its own. There were several similar approaches already, but Gruber's philosophical take on it and his pragmatic understanding of normal writing conceits I think gave it great leverage and attention. IMO, the longer term legacy is very messy. And I'm in no way convinced that any Universal Salve (e.g. CommonMark), struggling with the variants for it, is going to work well enough to convince me there will ever be "one" workable universal approach to it. Indeed, I think Gruber's main point was "to be pragmatic" in the mess. My question is this: HOW in TW, now, do we pragmatically, in the easiest way, best enable writers to write and format their texts in the ways THEY need? Its completely nuts to think that writers should be limited to a good idea that emerged in 2011 when, now, we know a lot more and can do a lot more, EASILY. Let's have an argument about this. :-) Josiah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f2b4f984-eb9c-4c66-b2ac-f7163a24899a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
