Excellent!

Bill


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM, tin-pot <tin-...@gmx.net> wrote:

> Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@...> writes:
>
> >
> > On 05/24/11 08:08, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > [---]
> > > Markdown is a really simple format that would imho greatly improve the
> > > embed wiki of fossil.
> >
> >    Agreed. I'd love to see markdown support in fossil.
> >
>
>
> Good news then :-)
>
> I have added the `discount` Markdown implementation into Fossil version
> 1.21.
> This is actually pretty simple to do.
>
> First, get David L. Parson's `discount` package from the author's site
> [1]; this
> is a classical configure/make source tree, so if you are on Windows, you
> might
> be interested in my adaptation [2] of it for Windows/MSVC on github.
>
> Building should give you a static library `markdown.lib` (rsp.
> `markdown.a`).
>
> The only thing that must be changed in Fossil (besides letting the
> compiler and
> linker find the Markdown lib in the Makefile) is the source file
> `wikiformat.c`.
>
> I have put the modified file in my public Dropbox [3], the changes can
> easily be
> found by looking for the macro `WITH_MARKDOWN`. If you define it (in your
> Makefile), all wiki content (and log messages if switched on etc.) will use
> extended Markdown, while the Fossil-style links still work. See David
> Parson's
> page for the details on which syntax extensions are available.
>
> This is in an early stage of development and needs testing, and of course
> the
> user should have the option to enable Markdown in the web interface,
> individually for each wiki page rsp artifact would be best ... - but it's a
> start anyway.
>
> Feel free to experiment with that and to proliferate it.
>
> Cheers
> M.H.
>
>
> [1]: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount
>
> [2]: https://github.com/tin-pot/discount
>
> [3]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13455033/wikiformat.c
>
>
>
>
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