Re: mkhtml.py: writing HTML documents in Markdown

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:19:39 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen <at> canonical.org> [2008-06-08 18:00]:
> > (I also have this theory that
> > I'll be a happier person if I don't spend too much time on
> > inventing private markup languages, and that makes me perhaps
> > unreasonably reluctant to add extra postprocessing steps, even
> > when the alternative is ill-formed HTML.)
> 
> I agree with that theory, which is why I use Markdown despite the
> minor (and a few less minor) things I dislike about it. Attaching
> some light postprocessing to Markdown to add support for small
> missing bits seems like a much better approach to achieve both
> satisfaction and an absence of unhappiness.

Agreed, especially if there's some graceful degradation.

> I try to write code only when I can’t help it…

I try to accumulate code I have to maintain only when I can't help it.
Writing code, however, is fun, and I probably reinvent the wheel quite
a bit.