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"I don't see how using markdown is any worse than using a typewriter."...errrr...i think we have moved past the typewriter somewhat

Its just a catch phrase. Get over it. Read the article, it makes a whole lot of sense and is a very sensible approach.

Thats like saying BP invented oil. To claim a plaintext only comment, sans markdown syntax, as markdown is a big stretch to make. But I understand you will want to make that stretc…

sigh. plain text paragraphs cant be claimed to be invented by markdown. sorry. good try tho.

Yip. Feel much better :)

The link you are referring to is for a perl script to convert markdown to HTML. It is not markdown, the syntax, referred to in that article. You would have understood that if you r…

paragraphs are plain text :)

Yes and notice how few have used it even here. Most replies are plain text.

haha :) yeah, the last few weeks scratched a few itches, thats for sure! But on the whole Im a positive chap and the posts are positive or (gasp) tongue in cheek :) Don't take it s…

I think tho that Markdown hasnt won the plain text battle - plain text has. Only a very small percentage of plain text docs are markdown...so small it wouldn't even count...

hi Argh. My reply got burned by the server downtime. Just to say I dont have anything against the shell and plain text- I produced (facilitated) the production of numerous books ar…

Thanks for the tip. I added a few things this afternoon and didn't spell check :) As for negative nelly, the post right after the markdown one is about an alternative (for a very s…

hi, Adam here, I wrote the article. Really interesting comments. Just for the record, I am in favor of the command line tool, and I have also posted numerous articles on better alt…