On Monday, 20 October at 16:36, Didier Kryn wrote:
>    Hello guys.
>
>    I'm confused with markdown files. Essentially I'm concerned with
>README.md like one can find in any git store, like git.devuan.org.
>
>    1) If I write a file in the Markdown format, my browser doesn't
>know how to display it.
>
>    2) If I point my browser to the same file through a server at
>localhost, it still can't display it.
>
>    3) If I point the same browser to some README.md file in the git
>store, now it can display it.
>
>    4) If I look at the content of the README.md file, it is just
>plain HTML!
>
>    Is somebody lying, or is there some mechanism in the servers which
>convert md to html, or what else?
>
>    Thanks if one can explain.
>
>--     Didier

Not directly answering any of your questions, but one of the things
which made markdown popular is that in its raw form, it is easily
readable. Headers are defined by how they are underlined, for example,
and lists just look like lists in raw text (numbered or not).
This also makes them easier to edit.

On the other hand, there have been many "improvements" which enable
"more complete" HTML conversion (markdown didn't originally have
anything which converted to tables, for instance) and these improvements
typically make the format less readable.

- Antoine

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A computer once beat me at chess,
but it was no match for me at kickboxing.