markdown do not support Strikethrough ?

[Dan Dascalescu]

On MojoMojo, which also uses Markdown, we use the <del> tag. And
example of how that's rendered is at
http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/howtos/android#Backup_.2F_sync

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Dan
http://wiki.dandascalescu.com

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:45, John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> +++ Arno Hautala [Jul 23 10 07:42 ]:

>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:27, david parsons <orc at pell.portland.or.us> wrote:

>> > Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

>> >>

>> >>I could have sworn that this was done using dashes.

>> >>-Apparently that's not so.-

>> >

>> >   But how do would you visually differentiate that markup from

>> >   regular hyphens in text?   (There are already cases -- the lowly

>> >   underscore springs to mind -- where the reference markdown does

>> >   the non-obvious thing.)

>>

>> Agreed.  How common is it to actually want to strike out text anyway?

>> I've clearly not done it much; thinking a non-existent feature was the

>> standard.

>> It's just not something that's useful or common enough to warrant

>> inclusion, especially when using actual HTML is a simple and effective

>> solution.

>

> Pandoc supports strikethrough with ~~this syntax.~~

>

> I have some regrets about the choice, because I don't think

> "strikeout" is a particularly natural interpretation of this markup.

> But using HTML isn't a great solution for pandoc, which supports many

> output formats.

>

> John

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