On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:25:49PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML > >> into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for > >> that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. > > Please don't settle for markdown. I would love a org filter! > > org-mode just handles tabular data admirably :) > > Just beware that Org's code is generally written under the implicit > assumption that the Org document is trusted, so if you try to reuse > parts of Org's code to do the rendering be extra mindful of the > potential for security holes.
My tip of the hat towards Org was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The problem I actually see with Org (and with Markdown, to a lesser extent) is that they are pretty ad-hocish and tinker friendly. Which is a *big* plus on the one hand. On the other, though, once you want to formalize the thing (a prerequisite to be able to even start talking about security), a myriad of dialects has evolved. Then you either need a dictatorship (Github aka Microsoft, cf. "github flavoured Markdown") or you have a long and painful process (Org is trying, currently). The upside of Org and Markdown is that you (currently, at least) don't need a special reader to make sense of them. But (that's the fourth or fifth hand?) if you follow the evolution of HTML, back then (TM) you didn't need a special reader either. Looking at the crud generated by e.g. "modern" Microsoft mailers, though... There's room for information technology sociologists here :) Cheers -- t
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