[MlMt] different markup language plugin?

[Howard Wettstein]

We appreciate the thinking out loud, even when we don’t know enough of 
the technical material to fully follow.
Howie




On 26 Jun 2016, at 7:47, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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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