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Isn't the point of Markdown that it is supposed to be regular text, formalising conventions that have been used for traditional ASCII text files for decades?
by Findecanor 5y ago
Isn't the point of Markdown that it is supposed to be regular text, formalising conventions that have been used for traditional ASCII text files for decades?
- cmckn 5y agoSure, but the point is also to render said ASCII into something a bit more slick and dynamic. These editors let you work with the underlying markup, while showing you the final product. In fact, this is the way I wished all word processors worked—the worst thing about MS Word in my opinion is the invisible hand of the phantom formatting characters.
- Syonyk 5y ago> ...the worst thing about MS Word in my opinion is the invisible hand of the phantom formatting characters. WordPerfect says "Reveal Codes!" from the grave... Formatting is being nonsensical? Jump into Reveal Codes, delete all the weird formatting stuff by tag, and solve your problem.
- slantyyz 5y ago> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. The point of Markdown is to write plaintext in Markdown and convert to Markup (as in Hypertext Markup Language) Source: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/