Re:Markdown Tutorial
by Zarel on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:47PM
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I don't like Markdown for non-technical users.
On Reddit, I frequently see mistakes caused by Markdown behaving unexpectedly. Common problems include:
- "How old are you?" "52." gets renumbered into "How old are you?" "1.".
- People using single linebreaks for poetry and song lyrics, and being confused when they get collapsed into a single line.
GitHub Flavored Markdown _does_ fix both these problems, but for some reason, regular Markdown is a lot more common, even when targeting non-technical users.
On Reddit, I frequently see mistakes caused by Markdown behaving unexpectedly. Common problems include:
- "How old are you?" "52." gets renumbered into "How old are you?" "1.".
- People using single linebreaks for poetry and song lyrics, and being confused when they get collapsed into a single line.
GitHub Flavored Markdown _does_ fix both these problems, but for some reason, regular Markdown is a lot more common, even when targeting non-technical users.