Re:Beyond Markdown
by ajdude on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:03PM
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I agree. I admit, I still /do this/ for emphasis, and have always wondered why Markdown didn't follow suit.
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Because Gruber used a different convention?
> While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters — including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText — the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.