[arch-dev-public] News articles are now markdown formatted

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 08:33:37 EDT 2010


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 07/07/10 12:53, Dan McGee wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I rolled out some more changes to the main site tonight, and one of
>> them is pushing all news content through markdown. For the most part,
>> our old news articles can cope with this just fine. I went back and
>> touched up some of the more recent articles to make sure they looked
>> and read fine, but you may notice stuff from pre-2010 looking a little
>> funky. Feel free to hit "edit" and make the necessary changes to fix
>> them up as it takes all of about 15 seconds if you see something not
>> looking great.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions or see any problems.
>>
>
> Did this cause the yellow text in the pacman and xorg news items?

No, the preformatting style did when I put some things in `` so they
would be rendered monospace. Perhaps this style needs toning down
slightly...

-Dan


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