- From: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:42:54 -0400
- To: public-webplatform@w3.org
Thanks for the feedback on that one. I went ahead and closed the issue as a WONTFIX since it seems even with only three responses that using markdown for the Docs won't be going anywhere. I did mention that it is being looked into for the Q&A and noted Pandoc for conversion if needed. Perhaps we should point that nice bit of software out somewhere since others may prefer to markup text in another syntax as well? -Garbee On 10/29/2012 2:33 PM, Janet Swisher wrote: > +1. > > If you allow more than one syntax, then everybody who actively edits > on the site has to learn both syntaxes, because any given article > might be in one or the other. > > If someone has existing content in markdown syntax that they want to > contribute, they can use a tool like pandoc > (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try) to convert it to MediaWiki text. > > Supporting it for Q&A might be OK, since posts don't need to be edited > by others. > > On 10/29/12 1:25 PM, frozenice wrote: >> I agree that we don't need Markdown in the docs. It would just add >> another layer of complexity and I don't know how well the mentioned >> plugin plays along with our other plugins (it is marked as beta, too). >> >> Markdown could be handy for the Q&A though. I'll work on the markdown >> editor plugin there again, now that I finally got over my >> cold/flu/whateveritwas. :) >> >> Cheers >> fro >> >> On 29.10.2012 17:52, Jonathan Garbee wrote: >>> Bug 19692 [1] is a request for Markdown Syntax to be added as an >>> option for editing pages. >>> >>> I personally don't see where this would come in handy unless we >>> started to use markdown as the primary syntax. This would just add >>> one more way to do content which would just add >>> to confusion on markup. >>> >>> What are your thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Garbee >>> >>> [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19692 >>> >>> >> > >
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