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We should not forget, that the "spirit of Markdown" is: > Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an eas
by PinguTS 5y ago
We should not forget, that the "spirit of Markdown" is:
> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Inventor of Markdown
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
- avgcorrection 5y agoYou’re at least the third person to point to that paragraph while failing to acknowledge an important paragraph further into the article. :) > The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. So a text-to-HTML conversion to with the overriding design goal of being readable as-is… that’s the Gruberian spirit, and the basis for my original post.