[MlMt] Markdown inside of words

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 3 Apr 2014, at 16:16, Rob McBroom wrote:

> On 3 Apr 2014, at 5:03, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> I think this would be a good idea. I see many emails where 
>> inline-emphasis is used unintentionally and I see very few where it 
>> is used intentionally. If anyone feels strongly against such a change 
>> then speak up now.
>
> I personally wouldn’t miss it, but if anyone would, it would be nice 
> if they could use HTML to get around it, such as `em<i>phas</i>is on 
> the wrong syll<i>ab</i>le`.
>
> I suppose that would work if you could switch to a theoretical future 
> external Markdown converter, so maybe concentrate effort on that over 
> allowing arbitrary HTML. :-)

Yes, inline HTML would also only be an option with external Markdown 
converters (except for signatures).

>> Somewhat related, I regularly receive requests for _adding_ various 
>> Markdown features/flavors and the plan is to handle it like this when 
>> I get time to implement it: Allow custom Markdown (or other syntax) 
>> converters which can be used to generate the HTML body part of a 
>> message, but when this is done then the converter must also provide 
>> the plain text body part and MailMate won't add anything to the 
>> headers of the message about the plain text body part being Markdown 
>> text.
>
> And in that case, am I correct in assuming that it would be possible 
> to actually *view* the plain-text part as plain text? That would be 
> nice.

It would have to work that way, but this really should be optional with 
the current Markdown plain text body parts as well (I just haven't 
implemented it).

> But now I wonder, why not just make it the same across the board?
> [...]
>
> Is it worth maintaining code for the two different behaviors to 
> accommodate such a small group?

Yes.

To me the question should be: Is it worth adding the option of 
alternative Markdown converters at the price of people using inline HTML 
and other unreadable plain text? I'm not so sure ;-)

-- 
Benny
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