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Also I would argue that you can rather simply write a parser for the basic markdown syntax and convert it to e.g. HTML or plain text if necessary by getting rid
by randomluck040 4y ago
Also I would argue that you can rather simply write a parser for the basic markdown syntax and convert it to e.g. HTML or plain text if necessary by getting rid of markdown specific syntax.
- spiderice 4y agoMaybe many people on HN can do this. A lot fewer people than that on HN want to do it. And many people who use Markdown outside of HN can't do it.
- randomluck040 4y agoRealistically, only a few people have to do it and open source a toolkit. Also I don’t really think that we’ll have that issue with markdown because it’s widespread and rather well established. This doesn’t invalidate your point, which I absolutely agree with.
- randomluck040 4y agoAlso it’s not true for the file format for canvas which is probably way harder to parse correctly.
- pillefitz 4y agoWay harder means what? An extra 3 days of effort to the future open source Obsidian clone?
- jay3ss 4y agoOr use pandoc[0] to convert a markdown file to an HTML file (and many other file types) [0]: https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/
- quickthrower2 4y agoMarkdown is plain text, with conventions. To lose the ability ti see your data would requiring us to lose utf8 encoding which is unlikely as it is self perpetuating.