Metadata syntax (was Universal syntax for Markdown)

[Bowerbird at aol.com]

fletcher said:

>    For any consensus to come about, 

>    I think we need to agree on the 

>    fundamental purpose and philosophy of 

>    the consensus we claim to be interested in. 


it would be nice.



>    Otherwise many of these discussions will 

>    continue to occur without much hope of 

>    moving forward to any actual outcome/resolution. 


yep.



>    it's just a bunch of us sitting around 

>    explaining why we each think 

>    our own dog food is the best. 


uh-huh.   and what's really ironic is that you're
not even polling the general-public dogs you
hope will eat the food that you're putting out...

y'all seem to believe that they'll eat _anything_.



>    But in the meantime, MMD will continue to 

>    march forward


great to hear it!



>    a Mac OS X text editor with built-in MMD 

>   syntax highlighting, exporting, and editing 

>    that I hope to release in the next month or two


wha...   "the next month or two"?   what's the hold-up?



>    and I hope to put together a proof of concept 

>    native MMD parser for iOS (built using the same code 

>    as the desktop version) if no one else out there 

>    beats me to it (which would be a welcome turn of events!)


i don't understand why a parser has to be so hard...

-bowerbird
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