Re: [bug] [new exporter] [markdown] Underline exports as HTML

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>> Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:06:55AM +0100, Bastien wrote:
>>>> Hi Terry,
>>>> 
>>>> tftorrey@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > I'm not experienced with markdown, but this doesn't look right to
>>>> > me.
>>>> 
>>>
>>>> AFAIK there is no syntax for underlining in Markdown, so underlined
>>>> text in Org will be exported as plain text in Markdown.
>>>
>>> I would argue that underlining is a form of emphasis, so the leading
>>> and trailing underscores should be passed through verbatim to
>>> markdown (which, in markdown syntax is an emphasized span).
>>
>> Yes, I see your point -- it's now the case.
>
> AFAIU, one Markdown feature is to accept raw HTML as part of the syntax.
> So, what's wrong in writing in HTML code anything that is not directly
> supported by Markdown syntax (like tables)?
>

Pandoc supports tables in markdown documents, maybe this would be a good
syntax to target, as with pandoc markdown may be further exported to
either HTML or LaTeX.

  http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables

FWIW, it looks like pandoc also supports Org-mode tables.

  http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pipe-tables

Just throwing out ideas, I don't personally use the markdown export.

Best,

-- 
Eric Schulte
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