Re: Markdown Group - What set of goals?

Pabo, Shane.

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The one below from Shane is not in the archive, did it come to you directly?

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regards DaveP

On 20 November 2012 04:23, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C.
<pablo@glatelier.org> wrote:
> On 19 November 2012 09:01, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:
>> What would be the Markdown group goals?
>> [...]
>> 2. Publish a technical note with the original markup
>>    + a cross section of what has been extended and supported elsewhere.
>>       - needs a description of each extensions
>>       - needs an interoperability report of these features
>>       - decide what is in, what is out.
>
> This is where I think we should work. First the core (John's), see
> which are the most common/used extensions for each language, and then
> see if some of them can be integrated in the core only if they follow
> the guidelines (already stated by John's, but we should discuss them
> and write them as a "declaration"; sorry I couldn't come with the
> correct word D:)
>
> On 19 November 2012 15:38, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:
>> I would like to see a generic mapping that would work with (X)HTML - the
>> output should be able to work in all of those.
>
> I don't think md output should be polyglot. One of the ideas of
> creating this spec it's keeping md as simple as it was. So md ยป html.
>
> Since md was made to write content and not real "markup", it should be
> compatible with xhtml and html5. Most md uses common elements from
> html 4.01, xhtml and html5 (html now), so I don't think that would be
> an issue.
>
> Regards,
> --
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