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#16 2009-09-01 18:35:14
- masa
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- From: North Wales, UK
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Re: Markdown support?
Personally I don’t see the need to introduce another formatting language.
Textpattern & Textile makes a lot of sense from a branding point of view, and clients usually get the hang of it pretty quickly. I also prefer Textpattern’s header formatting syntax with simple h1, h2 etc. – easier to identify when scrolling through long articles.
In my experience end-users don’t bother much with nesting of list items.
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#17 2009-09-01 21:31:36
- Neko
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Re: Markdown support?
masa wrote:
Personally I don’t see the need to introduce another formatting language.
I’m with you on this one, although I don’t have a particular reason to not support policleto’s idea.
IMVHO the Dev Team shouldn’t have to introduce any new markup language, just provide the right hooks. At this point, any plug-in author could provide a dedicated solution for Markdown, BBcrap and so on. Or a user could upload a markdown.php inside the /lib folder or whatever.
I don’t see the whole process having an high priority, tho.
Last edited by Neko (2009-09-01 21:33:59)
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#18 2009-09-01 23:32:16
- policleto
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- Registered: 2007-08-28
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Re: Markdown support?
I also prefer Textpattern’s header formatting syntax with simple h1, h2 etc. – easier to identify when scrolling through long articles.
I think it’s a matter of taste, but in general Markdown sintax is more readable though give less power editing html entities.
Yes Neko, this is what I mean: hooks!
Not a particular markup language, but an opportunity to write my own.
I can’t agree with some opinion which retain that what exist is always enough.
I think there is a margin of improvement, everywhere.
Maybe it’s neither an high-priority feature nor a useless one.
Last edited by policleto (2009-09-02 10:38:42)
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Re: Markdown support?
Oh, sorry – I wasn’t aware that this has been requested a while ago already. Now, in 2012, I find that many areas decided to make use of Markdown. Writers and Coders alike share in interest in having a choice. I would still leave Textile as the default for Textpattern but make way for a plugin that allows a system-wide or by post preference of the interpreter to be used.
For anyone already using Markdown on a daily basis it will make life much easier. Or maybe it is just me.
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Note: I am currently not actively using Textpattern, so I am not in the forums very often
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