On 04/06/2015 17:00, Gavin Simpson wrote: ...
1. Markdown was designed to be as readable as possible in plain text format (i.e. the sources, not the rendered file). There's nothing stopping you reading and parsing a NEWS.md in your head trivially.
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That claim is made frequently, but it is not my experience. That you can filter out markup in your head does not mean others can -- it is very distracting to some visually impaired people (including when using a text-to-speech reader).
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