From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-04-23T03:21:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RedCloth 2.0.7 -- A Textile Humane Web Text Generator

> how about headers? It would be killer if you could add the header 
> markup that RDoc/Markdown use

I sympathize with this idea, but I think RedCloth needs to stay true to 
Textile. Although similar to Markdown and RDoc, it really is of its own 
kind. I never thought I'd repeat it, but adding "=== Header ===" to 
RedCloth would seem "funky" to me in a Dave Winerian sense.

Textile has one solution for each markup problem. That's part of the 
Textile design. It's fabric. Markdown, on the other hand, is much more 
lenient and attempts to be a parser for plain text emails. That's the 
Markdown design. Both approaches are equally valid, but distinct.

Hence, I'd advice Why to be true to Textile in his additions. That'll 
make it much more likely that Dean will adopt the extensions back into 
the "official" Textile and that content created with RedCloth will be 
portable across Textile implementations.
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