<html><head></head><body>Maybe the RFC format was the "inspiration" for the current Markdown syntax. Perhaps the original reason Markdown was conceived was to make RFC documents more "pretty". At lead that's my way of looking at it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 1, 2015 4:28:31 PM MST, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2015-01-01 16:08, Kevin Veroneau wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On December 31, 2014 10:43:40 AM MST, Nick Matavka <n.theodore.matavka.files@gmail.com> wrote:<br /></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">As regards format, please note that this is a MARKDOWN formatted<br />resource.<br />I will not consider re-flowing the text in any other format, unless<br />the Markdown format continues to be authoritative. First of all,<br />RFCs are in modified Markdown and I have already started the RFC<br />process with the international people.<br /></blockquote></blockquote>[...]<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8
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border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> Markdown for the win! See, my idea of preferring Markdown in my<br /> Gopher client update was a perfect choice. Considering RFCs are also<br /> written in a similar syntax. Markdown is just so easy to read<br /> regardless if it's rendered as rich text or plain text. I actually<br /> never knew RFC documents were markdown compatible. Learn something<br /> new everyday.<br /></blockquote><br />I'd say it's most likely the other way around, Markdown is (similar to)<br />RFC syntax.<br /><br />As far as I know, RFCs are written in plain text ASCII (or perhaps *roff<br />is/was used in some stage). Markdown is just close to plain text, but I<br />don't think it makes sense to label things that have existed since 1969<br />as Markdown (which appeared in 2004, according to wikipedia).<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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