[MlMt] Markdown inside of words

[Kee Hinckley]

On 7 Apr 2014, at 9:53, Rob McBroom wrote:

> On 6 Apr 2014, at 11:36, Kee Hinckley wrote:
>
>> But it’s allowed me to do things like add automatic 
>> syntax-highlighting to code blocks, and support tab-delimited tables, 
>> and otherwise extend my email in ways which make my work much easier. 
>> If someone were to view the plain-text of those messages, or even 
>> reply to them, they wouldn’t get exactly what I got, but they’d 
>> get something perfectly readable–that’s the basic nature of 
>> Markdown.
>
> …unless they use MailMate to read the plain-text part, in which 
> case, it will detect `markup=markdown` and run your text through its 
> internal processor, which won’t always handle it correctly.


No, that's my point. The whole idea behind Markdown is that readable 
even if *not* processed. So the fact that one markdown processor 
supports a couple extra features doesn't matter. What you see still 
makes sense.

If I send you some code-fenced Python and you don't see it with syntax 
highlighting, that's fine. It's still formatted correctly and perfectly 
readable. If I paste in some tab-separated content, you see 
tab-separated content. That's fine. Yes, someone viewing the HTML will 
see a prettier version--but that's what HTML is for.
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