tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 05:21:49PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > [...] > > > I could write a script which would convert Markdown documents to HTML > > and then call Firefox on the result, but I'm surprised there is no MD > > viewer like xdvi or qpdfview. > > This may be due to the fact that, if you look closely, Markdown is > a monster. > > There are many variants, a significant subset of them allows a varying > subset of HTML (which one?) as an extension, and quite a few are just > specified by some single implementation. > > It is one of those extremely interesting cases where a clear strength > (simplicity, under-specification: thus I can hack something together > over a weekend in Perl; since I'm rendering to HTML anyway, if table > support isn't enough... well, duh, I can pass-through tables and so > on) can turn around. > > Note that I am *not* judging. This simplicity and underspecification > *is a strength* (I /love/ Org Mode), but it is also a weakness. You > seem to be running into the latter :-) > > Have a look at [1]. Does it remind you of [2]? I'm actually surprised by the recent proliferation of similar markup languages. Was it Wikipedia who started the trend? OTOH, when I was younger, I encountered troff and DocBook and Texinfo and of course LaTeX and lout (do you remember lout?). So there have probably always been many of them. -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet
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