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Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by allarm »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #269
jonp888 wrote: post #203

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The whole point of Markdown is that the formatting codes intutitively make sense and are readable even without a viewer and without needing to read a specification first. People have been using asterisks as bullet points and to emphasise things long before anyone came up with Markdown. Maybe it doesn't to you, but it does to most people. An update to Microsoft Notepad which renders Markdown is currently being rolled…

Well, that's nice about Notepad. I'm not sure I agree *something* is intuitive for italic and **something else** is intuitive for bold, or that this is intuitively a block quote: > #### The quarterly results look great! > > - Revenue was off the chart. > - Profits were higher than ever. > > Everything is going according to *plan*.

">" was the quotation symbol used by email clients for decades. See mutt, elm.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by DidYaWipe »

dismalaf wrote: post #270
DidYaWipe wrote: post #261

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"reading READMEs is such a common task that you specifically want it in your IDE" Are you being intentionally obtuse? I said that's exactly what I DON'T want.

So hide it from your project structure? It's an easy thing to do... I really don't get your issue, you're right. .gitignore or .ignore file...

It's not part of my project. It's reference material.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by DidYaWipe »

allarm wrote: post #271
DidYaWipe wrote: post #269

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Well, that's nice about Notepad. I'm not sure I agree *something* is intuitive for italic and **something else** is intuitive for bold, or that this is intuitively a block quote: > #### The quarterly results look great! > > - Revenue was off the chart. > - Profits were higher than ever. > > Everything is going according to *plan*.

">" was the quotation symbol used by email clients for decades. See mutt, elm.

Yep, sure was.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by jen20 »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #269
jonp888 wrote: post #203

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The whole point of Markdown is that the formatting codes intutitively make sense and are readable even without a viewer and without needing to read a specification first. People have been using asterisks as bullet points and to emphasise things long before anyone came up with Markdown. Maybe it doesn't to you, but it does to most people. An update to Microsoft Notepad which renders Markdown is currently being rolled…

Well, that's nice about Notepad. I'm not sure I agree *something* is intuitive for italic and **something else** is intuitive for bold, or that this is intuitively a block quote: > #### The quarterly results look great! > > - Revenue was off the chart. > - Profits were higher than ever. > > Everything is going according to *plan*.

Typically, italic formatting indicates gentle emphasis, bold formatting indicates strong emphasis. Given this, * and * make sense. However, typically people use _ for gentle emphasis in Markdown, which makes _even more_ sense. Be careful not to confuse specification of rendering,

As for - and >, they've been in use in plain text email clients for bulleted lists and quotations for 35 years now [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#:~:text=The%20co...

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by DidYaWipe »

jen20 wrote: post #274
DidYaWipe wrote: post #269

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Well, that's nice about Notepad. I'm not sure I agree *something* is intuitive for italic and **something else** is intuitive for bold, or that this is intuitively a block quote: > #### The quarterly results look great! > > - Revenue was off the chart. > - Profits were higher than ever. > > Everything is going according to *plan*.

Typically, italic formatting indicates gentle emphasis, bold formatting indicates strong emphasis. Given this, * and * make sense. However, typically people use _ for gentle emphasis in Markdown, which makes _even more_ sense. Be careful not to confuse specification of rendering, As for - and >, they've been in use in plain text email clients for bulleted lists and quotations for 35 years now [1]. [1]: https://en.wik…

I'm not confusing anything. I'm saying that the example I provided is not intuitively recognizable as a block quote. And it gets worse when you have more nested decorations.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by saagarjha »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #267
saagarjha wrote: post #207

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Why are you surprised that the easiest way to view a markup format for generating HTML is on the web?

I was going to call out that out as a strawman, knowing that it doesn't meet the classic definition. Let me look up what's it's called when you bury a not-agreed-with assertion in a question that requires the recipient to agree with it... Ah, so that's the definition of a "loaded question." Thanks for the fallacy! "Loaded Question: A loaded question contains an assumption that may or may not be true or agreed upon. I…

What's there to disagree with? This is a fact.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by Diti »

Diti wrote: post #112
TheDong wrote: post #103

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html, markdown, reStructuredText, wikitext, AsciiDoc, emacs org mode, LaTeX, and a bunch of others. In some contexts, JSX and markdown are also competing. I think HTML is the true winner.

I also vote for HTML. It’s the only language I can write in which also includes all the metadata I want to include (schema.org and wikidata.org ontologies).

I’m very curious about why I’ve been downvoted. I assumed the HN crowd was tech-savvy enough to know what ontologies are? And one can’t write a blog post in Turtle.
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