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Markdown is a wonderful format (I use it all the time) but it's very narrow and I don't think it's appropriate for storing general 'things we might publish'. Yo
by oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
Markdown is a wonderful format (I use it all the time) but it's very narrow and I don't think it's appropriate for storing general 'things we might publish'. You lose a lot of semantics just replacing html with markdown. For a general purpose markup language, I don't think we can beat XML.
- Terr_ 2y agoI agree, if the purpose is archival (versus manually reading it with your eyeballs) then you will want a format that (1) can capture information in a somewhat self-documenting way and (2) is in a form that can be easily parsed and converted into a newer format.