Re: Markdown done

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Chris,

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:54 AM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I am all in favour of the move to Markdown, but I wonder if there is a
> cleaner solution than using so many of these really rather ugly HTML
> entities?

So do I.

I briefly considered sticking with plain HTML, but then remembered you
favored Markdown when I went with RestructuredText for the testing
manual.

On the surface, Markdown seems a great, lightweight mode for the tag
descriptions until you see the first &lowbar;. There is a way to use
backslashes, but that comes with its own problems. We have easy access
to the markup methods mentioned here, if you would like to propose an
alternative:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Markup

Alas, most of them employ * or _ for some form of emphasis. Perhaps we
could use MediaWiki, which uses single quotes?

Kind regards
Felix