[MlMt] different markup language plugin?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 26 Jun 2016, at 12:44, Charlie Allom wrote:

> Can I replace Markdown with a self-made plugin for another markup 
> language? Just the same output styles is sufficient.

You can, but you shouldn't.

Markdown is perfect for emails since it is based on email tradition. In 
other words, even if Markdown is not converted to HTML then it's 
(mostly) readable. MailMate marks outgoing emails as being based on 
Markdown and MailMate itself uses this to be smarter when 
replying/forwarding such emails. It would be quite bad if something is 
marked as Markdown when it isn't.

Technically, MailMate currently heavily relies on exactly how the 
Markdown is generated, but this could probably be solved. When/if it is 
then I could probably allow custom Markdown converters or even other 
markup languages. It's not at the top of my list though.

Slightly off topic, I'm strongly considering switching from `sundown` to 
`CommonMark`, but the latter does not support any kind of tables. I'll 
be interested if anyone has a solution to this problem. It might 
actually be best if MailMate handles it similarly to how it handles math 
and syntax highlighted segments. In other words, HTML table generation 
could be handled separately from the Markdown conversion (also allowing 
more than 1 table format). Well, just thinking out loud.

-- 
Benny
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