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Markdown has a syntax for bullet lists, why not use that? The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to chose from. It would be nice if there wer
by phicoh 7y ago
Markdown has a syntax for bullet lists, why not use that?
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to chose from. It would be nice if there were a single light weight markup language.
In many contexts you need something where text can be reflowed. Hacker News is a good example. It would be bad if all comments with long lines would show up with scroll bars.
So if the output is going to be reformatted anyhow, then it is better to use a light weight markup language that provides a quick way to provide the most common rendering hints.
And at that point your input text is source.
- Aardwolf 7y ago> It would be bad if all comments with long lines would show up with scroll bars. No it woulnd't, more newlines (by not ignoring single newlines) would make lines shorter on average, not longer. It should of course auto wrap long lines (and plain text does), horizontal scrollbars suck. So markdown only makes you choose between ignoring your single newlines or preformatted text with horizontal scrollbars but cannot combine best of both worlds? That makes it even worse.