Interesting, but in a weird way it kind of works against the whole point of Markdown - markup that emphasizes text-only readability. I think visualizations are best left to separate projects that specialize in them - which in turn generate images that can be placed in a Markdown document. Of course, if anyone finds this useful (obviously the author does) I would never discourage it. I'm simply trying to reconcile thi…
There's already a syntax to inline images: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#img I'm not sure what the benefit of doing it this way is supposed to be.
Visdown – Visualization using Markdown
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Re: Visdown – Visualization using Markdown
#12It'd be amazing to see a combination of this with R Markdown
Re: Visdown – Visualization using Markdown
#13I really want to have an extendable Markdown. A standard mechanism for expressing a used extension and providing an implementation for the Markdown processor to apply a transformation. This standardization can then result in much improved support for Markdown editors. Think autocomplete for any extended item which works on any Markdown editor.
Maybe basic Markdown (HTML), plus more advanced styling (CSS), and a small scripting language for anything that doesn't cover (JS).
Re: Visdown – Visualization using Markdown
#14It'd be amazing to see a combination of this with R Markdown
Re: Visdown – Visualization using Markdown
#15I really want to have an extendable Markdown. A standard mechanism for expressing a used extension and providing an implementation for the Markdown processor to apply a transformation. This standardization can then result in much improved support for Markdown editors. Think autocomplete for any extended item which works on any Markdown editor.
Re: Visdown – Visualization using Markdown
#16For a system engineer, it's hard to draw visual csv file by java script. markdown is the most simple and convenient tool, it's a good idea to combine markdown with visualization.