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A little experiment

~starbreaker

I've decided to try a little experiment, since it occurred to me that most of what I put on my website is just text. I've decided to make my site a single HTML page linking to a bunch of TXT files.

But since I'm so used to Markdown, all of my posts are Markdown-formatted in case I change my mind—or figure out how to combine Markdown with HTML that uses M4 macros...

Here's a little more on the subject if anybody cares.

Writing HTML in TXT

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~m15o wrote (thread):

I love that experiment of yours! I've found in your bookmarks that one on emacs and I thought to myself "hey, I never really tried emacs". So thanks to you, that's what I've spend most of my time on for a few days now!

~pink2ds wrote (thread):

Markdown was designed to easily be able to convert to HTML so that's not going to be a problem going forward. (Just make sure to keep your old Markdown originals around, too.)

~maya wrote (thread):

Hmm! On the one hand, I like his blog and yours! On the other hand, it's unusual to have to do so much scrolling sideways? Obviously it doesn't normally matter when Markdown gets rendered out, but some mid-sentence line breaks wouldn't go amiss for this presentation style.