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Markdown Wars - September 2014
Maybe this will be a new reality TV show. I'm glad that I have been writing in Textile, nearly every day since 2005.
My Junco and Grebe codebases allow markup writing in Textile, MultiMarkdown, and some HTML.
I've created my own flavor of Markdown/MultiMarkdown by adding some formatting commands that I want.
And I've added custom, Textile-like formatting commands to both apps that are available, regardless of which markup is used.
Old post about typing in plain-text, which has been my preferred way of typing for many years.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/markdown-the-syntax-you-probably-already-know/35295
When I worked at the BSBO and NFO, I got frustrated with apps like Microsoft Word when I created a lightly formatted text file.
I disliked the way that Word would format my writing in unexpected ways. Many times, I had no idea how additional spacing appeared between lines.
The fancy pants wordprocessor was way overblown for most of my needs, so I would use Notepad or a simple blog tool.
I prefer to create plain text that gets formatted to HTML. I'm disinterested in Word and PDF files.
Old related posts
GitHub's Markdown flavor:
https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown
Markup language for screenwriters
http://fountain.io/
2009 post:
http://blog.codinghorror.com/responsible-open-source-code-parenting/
2012 post:
http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/
Markdown test suite
https://github.com/michelf/mdtest/
Markdown, Gruber, and Atwood discussion from a couple years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716501
http://rumproarious.com/2012/10/29/markdown-the-spec/
Sep 4, 2014
Hilarious. The geeks have crapped their pants.
https://twitter.com/jcb/status/507532055618797568
wake up, log in to twitter, everyones pissed about markdown
I wonder if anyone got upset with MultiMarkdown, or did the creator of MultiMarkdown get permission to include "Markdown" in the name?
http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown
http://spinhalf.net/omg-markdown
http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/507547724968128512
http://scripting.com/2014/09/04/letMarkdownBeMarkdown.html
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507590561172176897
https://twitter.com/horse_markdown
http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/standard-flavored-markdown/2382/16
http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/3959
https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/507680549712838656
I apologize for any drama, I dislike drama, I like resolutions and forward progress. That is what I am aiming for.
http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/
It's good to object and debate, but some of the A-list geeks needlessly wigged out.
Verbal pissing matches occur in the Internet tubes. Sometimes, it's fun to be on the field participating, and other times, it's better to be a spectator.
After reading through posts from the past to the current, I agree with Atwood's standard initiative, and I think that Marco and Gruber knee-jerked and behaved disappointingly.
And the attempts at sarcastic humor were futile at best.
It appears that Gruber has shown no interest in advancing the Markdown movement in this decade.
Atwood has shown interest in improving and standardizing Markdown since 2007.
The new markup initiative will continue, regardless what Gruber thinks because too many other intelligent people from popular web services want this to happen.
Gruber can continue to write about Apple products while others continue to make it easy for people to write to the web.
Markdown's Perl code looks much less professional than Textile's Perl code.
Markdown needs a modern touch, regarding its development, standardization, testing, roadmap, etc. It needs to be a "real" project. What's wrong with that?
It's 2014 not 2004.
Sep 5, 2014
http://scripting.com/2014/09/05/emailToGruber.html
Winer commented:
Markdown is great, as-is.
For him, but not for me when I compare Markdown to Textile and MultiMarkdown.
For some reason, these geeks overlook the main reason for Atwood's desire to standardize how Markdown is suppose to work. Atwood gave a simple example
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