On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:13:07AM +0100, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
Well, if you use MultiMarkdown, you can use a metadata field to specify a CSS file. That would be a lot like inputting a standard preamble into a LaTeX file...
Anyway, part of the point of things like MultiMarkdown and pandoc[1] is to use and extended Markdown syntax to generate a variety of output---in which case the Markdwon file is functioning as a source file.
Yes. The presence or otherwise of styling information such as CSS or a LaTeX preamble in addition to the content is a red herring. Clearly there are many differences between LaTeX and Markdown, but If you anticipate changing the document in the future, but need a rendered page now for whatever reason, there's no question that the source should be retained. A "Save (e.g.) HTML to new file" script in the default Markdown bundle would make this easier when working with Markdown in TextMate.
-- Mike