On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Jason F. McBrayer wrote:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On 2009-02-25, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I have been thinking that it might be better to force links into
>>> footnotes for ascii export.....
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I, for one, would find this very attractive.  And it's in line with
>> what some of the text based web browsers generate in ascii dumps of
>> web pages.
>
> I think that's a good idea, as well.  It might even be particularly
> nice to format the links and the footnotes in such a way that a
> [Markdown][1] processor could understand them.
>
> [1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Hmmm, I see what you mean - but I don't think that is a realistic
use case.  If you have an org document, would you then want to go
through ASCII and then markdown for HTML instead of using the direct
route?

And I think that

    I get 10 times more traffic from [Google] than from
    [Yahoo] or [MSN].

is still easier to read than

    I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][] than from
    [Yahoo][] or [MSN][].

So I would need a convincing argument to make it exactly
markdown format.

- Carsten