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Amaury / SkrivMarkup

Interpreter of the Skriv Markup Language.

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Non-inline hyperlinks #27

Closed jonashaag closed 10 years ago

jonashaag commented 10 years ago

There should be a way to put hyperlink references on the bottom of the page/section, similar to how reStructuredText does it.

The example on http://markup.skriv.org/online/try is terribly cluttered with hyperlinks that makes the text unreadable. Markup text should be readable by humans, not only machines.

Amaury commented 10 years ago

Thanks for your message. As you can guess, I tought about that.

Please, take a look at the SkrivML's rationale.

Lightweight markup languages should stay lightweight.
It is designed to be fast to type. (...) It is more important to be able to write these pages quickly than to keep the likeness of any text file.
(...) all the syntax is context-free. As you write your text, you type the markups you need when you need them, and that's it.

You can also read the links syntax's reasoning.

jonashaag commented 10 years ago

Well if you prefer your code the "quickly written, sacrificing readability" way, then this reasoning makes perfect sense.

Amaury commented 10 years ago

Yes, as for MediaWiki, Creole, Asciidoc, DokuWiki, MoinMoin, ... SkrivML is not ascii art (like Markdown can be).