I know pull quotes (right/left aligned) will never make it into a generic markdown processor, but I've often thought about working them into a fork for news publishing.
Given that you blog with markdown, how do you manage your pull quotes? (I noticed this article had a few) Do you just write them in HTML?
Great post, as always!
I have a Jekyll plugin that uses a liquid tag around the paragraph containing the pull quote, with the specific text to be quoted inside of {" "} markers. When it renders, it takes that text and applies it as an attribute to the paragraph tag, so that the pull quotes are generated without any additional markup. Entirely non-standard Markdown, but in a format that's easy to strip out with a regex if ever needed.
Thanks man! That's pretty awesome, and a good starting point for me to explore further.
On an entirely unrelated note, I was pondering yesterday that I need to try combining your "Chrome tabs to reference links" and "Dropbox Link Collections". I'm always talking about links in a meeting, and a quick way to share afterwards would be amazing.
Rick, I have done things like pull quotes in the past with my own markdown hacks. I recently came upon a new blogging service I quite like called http://blot.im/ Blot has added layout syntax to its markdown.
Take a look at the rendered page http://david.blot.im/custom...
And the original text file https://gist.github.com/dav...
The developer is still actively working on the layout syntax. I have used a number of static rendering tools and blogs integrated with Dropbox in the past. Blot has a interesting balance of simplicity and depth of features that I have never seen before.
Out of curiosity, I've tried to visit http://joramo.com, to see what you made out of Blot.im, but I fall on a "Directory Index Denied" page.
Your point about tabs is completely invalid, since Markdown only has leading indentation. Clearly any other alignment you want to do (e.g. in code blocks) should be spaces.
Remarkbox