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Oh, one quick note about your markdown from someone stupid enough to have tried to write his own markdown flavor: those slashes are a nightmare for handling urls/paths. Trying to programmatically distinguish between "my/path to/some/ridiculous folder/and/s/y/m/bol/s" and "/i want this italic/ but not this. and sometimes o/nl/y some letters in a word." was all too much for me. I quickly retreated from using slashes at all in the markdown design. But there are definitely better programmers than me with much better designs for text parsing, so don't let me imply it's impossible (or even that hard! I honestly don't know!). I was just reminded of the anecdote and thought I'd share.


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