[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Interaction of org-mode and Muse

[Michael Olson]

"Patrick Hawkins" <address@hidden> writes:

> Only slightly off-topic, I have a few, probably not so serious
> reservations about putting Markdown support into Muse. Markdown was
> designed to be converted into (X)HTML only, and thus many little
> decisions must have gone into the design of Markdown that, whilst
> making transitions into HTML fantastic, probably provide some thorny
> issues for integration with Muse. For example, <lisp> tags. Markdown
> allows for valid XHTML tags, but throw in anything crazy like that
> and it will cease to be a generic, parses-anywhere Markdown
> document. If we're trying to serve those who use Markdown on a
> regular basis, and ease their transition to Muse, it would be well
> for those we serve to maintain integration with their other Markdown
> workflow. If they are comfortable switching their workflow entirely,
> then I suppose this isn't as much of an issue, but there are
> numerous (maybe even tens of) tools that parse Markdown and would
> choke on a Muse/Markdown hybrid.

I don't understand why this is an issue.  If someone wants to preserve
compatibility with Markdown in their document, all they have to do is
use only Markdown-specific markup.  If there is a concern that someone
might unknowingly use Muse-specific markup, would it be sufficient to
just throw an optional warning message at them?

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