- From: Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. <pablo@glatelier.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:25:13 -0300
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Markdown List <public-markdown@w3.org>
On 25 November 2012 05:29, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 November 2012 21:13, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. > <pablo@glatelier.org> wrote: >> I'm sorry if this has been already discussed... but I'm curious about >> "newlines" (maybe I read it somewhere that it's out of the scope). >> >> github md uses that each line break... >> >> Roses and red >> violets are blue >> >> Results in actually two lines, not "one" long. Indeed, I can't see why >> anyone would want to use a line break if they actually didn't mean to. > > Which is different from currentMD and many other implementations which > follow the logic described by Ryan. > > Hence the discussion. I think a little more about it, and well... I'm gonna answer myself. If for example I write the documentation of an app in markdown, of course I would like to write it with a "line break", since in a terminal (for ie) it's simpler to read not more than ~80 columns. Looks better as "plain text". BUT, if I want to convert that to html for example, it's not html the best tool for that job. In fact, if we include that github modification it will create an UGLY html markup: markdown: Roses and red violetas are blue html output (githubMD): <p>roses and red</p> <p>violets are blue</p> or (just guessing), html output (githubMD): <p>roses are red<br /> violets are blue</p> or (still guessing), html output (githubMD): <p>roses are red violets are blue</p> currentMD: <p>roses are red violets are blue</p> Anyway, the lenght of the line in a html output it's responsability of css, not html. This is specially true if we decide to make md can output to a "neutral" language. Regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/
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