• September 2014 posts

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.

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 app 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 .docx and .pdf files.

GitHub's Markdown flavor:
https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown

September 2014 posts

Hilarious. The geeks have crapped their pants.

https://twitter.com/jcb/status/507532055618797568

wake up, log in to twitter, everyones pissed about markdown

http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown

http://spinhalf.net/omg-markdown

http://standardmarkdown.com

http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/507547724968128512

http://scripting.com/2014/09/04/letMarkdownBeMarkdown.html

I apologize for any drama, I dislike drama, I like resolutions and forward progress. That is what I am aiming for.

#writing - #markup - #markdown - #textile - #design