[Oberon] Re (2): Experimental Oberon released

[Jan Tuitman]

Markdown was invented by John Gruber, more well known for his Apple related blog "Daring Fireball". The design goal was to keep the text readable for humans even without a special editor, so you can just treat the source as a text file, once you have learned the syntax (and for reading you shouldn't have to learn the syntax at all).

The "official" implementation is a perl script, so you can run that on linux to generate html from md. But I assume that there exist better markdown editors for linux.

Here you can find the original markdown project. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

regards,
Jan Tuitman.

> Op 26 jan. 2016 om 17:38 heeft <peter at easthope.ca> <peter at easthope.ca> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> From:    Hans Klaver <hklaver at dds.nl>, Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:47:57 +0100
>> "md" stands for Markdown, which is a simple way to markup a 
>> plain text file without using HTML.
> 
> OK, thanks.  Now I found https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Flavored_Markdown .
> 
>> Apart from using a web browser to let github.com convert the 
>> README.md file to an HTML web page you could use e.g. 
>> Notebooks ( http://www.notebooksapp.com/ios/markdown/ ) 
>> to see the formatted view of a .md file
> 
> Notebooks sounds to be a Windows application whereas I have 
> Oberon and Linux.  The only browser immediately available here, 
> Epiphany, doesn't recognize *.md.  Merely saves a copy of the file. 
> 
>> I use Notebooks (which has free trial versions for Mac and PC, and 
>> also a version for iOS)  to make and arrange plain text notes ...
> 
> In a text editor, README.md appears to be nothing but HTML.  
> If README.md is saved as README.html, then Epiphany opens it 
> directly.  In fact Desktops.OpenDoc in Oberon will open it; 
> although with empty scroll boxes.
> 
> From:    "R. P. de Jong" <rdjong at mac.com>
>> Thanks for publishing this, and the professional documentation!
> 
> Ditto!  The reference to touchscreen is really cogent. 
> The personal workstation is no longer a desktop machine. 
> It is a handy or tablet with a touchscreen.
> 
> Thanks^2,                 ... Lyall E.
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