Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language

Re:Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language by xrt on Friday April 26, 2013 @04:05PM (#5615121)

It's been sad to watch Markdown eclipse Textile http://txstyle.org in popularity. Textile provides a more complete mapping to HTML than Markdown, while remaining easy to use.

Its primary flaw is translating line breaks into HTML line breaks. Per the article's criticisms, it too lacks a formal spec and supports embedded HTML.

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Re:Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language by Tobu on Friday April 26, 2013 @06:29PM (#5615874)

I like Textile too, it has the cleanest "link syntax":http://txstyle.org/doc/12/links. It's supported in Redmine and ikiwiki.

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Re:Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language by Terretta on Saturday April 27, 2013 @10:16AM (#5617809)

Textile does tables too.

http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/

For styled web content, I prefer Textile. For beginners who don't need to CSS style content inline, Markdown is better.

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Re:Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language by hasenj on Saturday April 27, 2013 @01:14AM (#5616888)

I think its primary flow is the link syntax.

As far as I remember, github's wiki pages used to be in Textile format. I might be mistaken here, but I remember being annoyed all the time by the link syntax.

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