• 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 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.

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/

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

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://standardmarkdown.com

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 wigged out and appeared infantile, like when me and other message board dorks flame about Toledo politics.

Verbal pissing 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 poorly. I'm guessing that Marco simply defended another staunch Apple fan-boy in Gruber.

Markdown's Perl code looks much less professional than Textile's Perl code.

Markdown needs a professional, modern touch, regarding its development, standardization, test suite, roadmap, etc. It needs to be a "real" project.

It's 2014 not 2004.

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