For a long time I hated markdown.

Now I love it.

What do you think?

  • loathesome dongeaterA
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    3 months ago

    I think overall it’s fine but I have two problems with it:

    • the syntax for adding a simple line break feels reallt silly. It involves adding two spaces at the end of a line
    • i still don’t know how to do paragraph breaks inside elements of lists. Tbf I don’t know if this is supported within html but there have been many times I have wanted to do this.

    Personally I prefer org-mode syntax.

    According to the creator of pandoc, because of its syntax there are some problems when creating parsers for markdown. He created a new markup language called djot which from my what I could understand is a bit stricter about syntax: https://github.com/jgm/djot

    As a rube who loves shiny new things I have always wanted to try out djot but am yet to find good support for it.

    • glans [it/its]@hexbear.netOP
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      3 months ago

      in html you can put <p> or </ br> inside <li>. in markdown you can do it on most places but you have to play around with line breaks and leading spaces. Here this works:

      - qqqq
      
         aaaa 
      - zzzz
      
      • qqqq

        aaaa

      • zzzz

      hmm interesting never saw that one.

      reading through djot/doc/quickstart-for-markdown-users.md, I see one big issue to implementing somewhere like lemmy right at the top. Needing so many blank lines is annoying in a small textbox/display; you can see less of what you are writing. Sometimes it’s convenient to smush stuff together a bit.