<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">It would make more sense to add another file in the FTP structure, like a defined "read me," index, or "about" file designed for humans, instead of expanding the conf file. <br><br>The .conf file is supposed to be a standardized file for the benefit of machines. It makes a lot of sense to segregate a bunch of machine settings from a broad scope markup language. <br><br>Security/Stability<br>1. Allowing broad spectrum markup languages (html, html5, xml) into a machine readable config file seems a huge security hole.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">2. Putting human readable text itno a file designed for machines is asking for manual edits.<br><br>Enhanced usability<br>3. implemented properly, this provides information in even the most basic forms of access (like command line windows.) </span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 3:54 PM DM Smith <<a href="mailto:dmsmith@crosswire.org" target="_blank">dmsmith@crosswire.org</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Changes need to be added to the engine first. No sense having a module that would otherwise work on an earlier version of the engine be blocked by having such a change in the conf. Then the question of which markdown and of that what subset.<br>
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We’ve had support for other compression types for years now, but we still won’t release a module that is compressed with a different compression.<br>
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In Him,<br>
DM<br>
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> On Jan 28, 2019, at 4:17 PM, David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Further to the earlier discussion about HTML in module .conf files, what would it take to support Markdown for some of the keys such as About?<br>
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