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Visdown – Visualization using Markdown

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Re: Visdown – Visualization using Markdown

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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.

Well, that would mean I'd need multiple source files and an ordered way of building the output. The source files would in effect just contain the same information that's here, but split up and away from their context.

Re: Visdown – Visualization using Markdown

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I 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.

> I really want to have an extendable Markdown.

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

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I 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.

I've tried to do this here: https://github.com/camoy/lark
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