Re: Blogging sucks

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: Blogging sucks
Date: 17:56 on 13 Oct 2005
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> Have a look at Markdown.
>
> Markdown source is plaintext that looks like email and Does What
> You Mean. If you need more elaborate markup than the constructs
> it supports you just write HTML straight into the document.
> Publishing code snippets is trivial too, if you use one of the
> code constructs (quoting with backticks if it=E2=80=99s inline or
> indenting by 4 spaces or a tab if it=E2=80=99s a block) it escapes all
> your angle brackets for you.
>
> Really, it is about as close to non-hateful as HTML authoring
> tools can get.

Yeah, like Restructured Text.  But none of the hosted blogs seem to
support it, or anything like it.  Which means, like I'm currently doing,
I have to resort to just writing the posts offline, converting it
manually, and then pasting the results.

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It's very hard to predict things . . . Especially the future.
                -- Prof. Charles Kelemen, Swarthmore CS Dept.
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