On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:15:15 +0200 Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dnia 2013-09-24, o godz. 19:49:33 > hasufell <[email protected]> napisał(a): > > > I wonder if it would make any sense to take the effort to convert > > markdown docs to html format before installing them. > > What for? The point of markups like Markdown is for the text to be > readable as plain text. Converting it to HTML goes against > this principle. You are pulling things out of context. Let me quote [1]: > Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; > and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain > text formatting to HTML. (1) If it is a formatting syntax, then why would we make text any more readable than it already is; actually, by mangling it with formatting constructs it could even end up being less readable. (2) It is a tool as well, saying it goes against a principle would be denying its existence and usefulness; consider that the global use of Markdown consists of a lot of conversion, we shouldn't neglect that people want to use it as it benefits them. Principle or not, we shouldn't force our users down a particular way to reading them; as that's not what our meta-distribution stands for. [1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : [email protected] GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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