Rendering Content-Type: text/markdown with shr via text/html?

Rendering Content-Type: text/markdown with shr via text/html?

[Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english]

I'm experimenting with posting articles with text/markdown as the
Content-Type.

I was wondering what the easiest way is to have Gnus translate such
articles to HTML and display them via shr, as is done for text/html
articles.

Anyone already tackled this?

I could make the news server do the translation on the fly, but then
supersedes and follow ups will be done on the text/html version, which
would be rather inconvenient, so I'd like it to be purely a display
thing.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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  able to provide many really useful patches for Gnus    asjo@koldfront.dk
  in the future yourself."


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Re: Rendering Content-Type: text/markdown with shr via text/html?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english <info-gnus-english@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm experimenting with posting articles with text/markdown as the
> Content-Type.
>
> I was wondering what the easiest way is to have Gnus translate such
> articles to HTML and display them via shr, as is done for text/html
> articles.
>
> Anyone already tackled this?

I don't think so.  There's several markdown packages on Marmalade, but
these seem more geared towards generating Markdown, and not displaying
it.

A function to convert Markdown into HTML might be nice, but I haven't
really seen anybody post with Markdown, so I'm not sure how useful this
would be.  But I guess it's a chicken and egg problem -- if mail readers
did support rendering Markdown, then people would start writing in
Markdown.

But is that a good thing?  :-)

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Re: Rendering Content-Type: text/markdown with shr via text/html?

[Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english]

Lars writes:

> A function to convert Markdown into HTML might be nice, but I haven't
> really seen anybody post with Markdown, so I'm not sure how useful this
> would be.  But I guess it's a chicken and egg problem -- if mail readers
> did support rendering Markdown, then people would start writing in
> Markdown.
>
> But is that a good thing?  :-)

Probably not.

I'm abusing nntp¹ to control a blog engine, though, and there it would be
really nice to be able to render text/markdown when viewing an article :-)

Maybe I could just make a washing function that runs the contents
through pandoc, before shr does it's thing?


  Best regards,

   Adam


¹ It is astonishing how many things nntp is well suited for - forums,
  mailing lists, RSS/Atom feeds, and - I think - also blogging.

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