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Markdown simply isn't meant for that kind of content. The idea of markdown, is that you end up with a text that is readable by itself, and renderable in more si
by wizhi 5y ago
Markdown simply isn't meant for that kind of content.
The idea of markdown, is that you end up with a text that is readable by itself, and renderable in more simple graphical environments.
No one should ever ask themselves "how do I do image positioning" or "how do I add pagination" when dealing with markdown. That's just not what it's good for.
Imagine having to write comments on HN using LaTeX.
- masklinn 5y ago> Markdown simply isn't meant for that kind of content. The idea of markdown, is that you end up with a text that is readable by itself, and renderable in more simple graphical environments. Also renderable safely and in bounded time (TeX is turing complete). > No one should ever ask themselves "how do I do image positioning" or "how do I add pagination" when dealing with markdown. That's just not what it's good for. Meh. This is a common question for table extensions, and the full-blown image commonmark spec is a bit of a mess. > Imagine having to write comments on HN using LaTeX. That would be an improvement over the current state of affairs at least, though probably a tad overdone on the other side of proper complexity.
- enriquto 5y ago> Imagine having to write comments on HN using LaTeX. Plain text paragraphs separated by blank lines is already a subset of LaTeX, so we are already doing that!
- detaro 5y agoHN has a tiny bit more formatting than that.