Re: Markdown: simple syntax for arbitrary nesting

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

> On Oct 24, 2023, at 11:06 PM, Fritz Fritzy <emile.valjean-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Using markdown, I've often been frustrated by
> 
> 	• Its flat/non-recursive/non-nested nature, by which I mean that you mostly cannot write "arbitrary" markdown inside most elements, and if you can, you have to be very careful with whitespaces/indentation/etc.


I'm not sure what you mean: generally you can nest things, you just have to pay attention to the syntax. Examples?


> 	• The impossibility to easily interlink to arbitrary parts of the document.
> To solve both issues, I'd like to propose an extension that allows "simply" using braces (or some other punctuation pair) to allow nesting, with an option to tag/add attributes to the contents like that.


I think this goes against the spirit of Markdown, which prioritizes source readability rather than easy writeability.

"The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown- formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions." (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)


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