> > PMario wrote: >> >> Some important variants are registered / described in [RFC7764] Guidance >> on Markdown: Design Philosophies, Stability Strategies, and Select >> Registrations <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7764> >> >> Common variants are: >> >> >> - MultiMarkdown >> - GitHub-Flavored Markdown >> - Pandoc >> - Fountain (Fountain.io) >> - CommonMark >> - kramdown-rfc2629 (Markdown for RFCs) >> - rfc7328 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7328> (Pandoc2rfc) >> - PHP Markdown Extra >> >> This is my Point 2 ...
Take the case of FOUNTAIN.IO. It is a really good illustration of the problem of getting specific. I'm familiar with Fountain style Markdown and a user of it in specialist software and via a crude hack parser I made for personal use in TW. Why is it relevant to TW? It isn't. And that is the point. Let me show why. Fountain is a *very well designed *markup system solely for screenplays. Its robustness is evident in that major commercial screenplay software now uses it as a standard import/export format. It integrates the basic Gruber Markdown, mainly for text emphasis. The rest of it is an interpretive parser that can understand the specific layout of screenplays very accurately. Its workings are uber-Gruber in that most of the time it detects screenplay components *without any explicit markup at all*. The screenplay layout in *plain text spacing IS its markup*. The point here is ... Fountain is an example of highly specialised extension incorporating Markdown in a seamless way but radically adding other markup components for IT's purpose. *The issue is this: When evaluating "A better Markdown for TW" what are we specifically talking about? It sure isn't Fountain. But WHAT is it?* Best wishes TT -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0c1be650-42da-4b2b-ae7d-29d99d3c66a0%40googlegroups.com.
