MultiMarkdown does something similar with images that are in a paragraph by 
themselves --- wrapping them in a <figure>.


Fletcher

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Fletcher T. Penney
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On Nov 14, 2013, at 3:09 PM, David Chambers <d...@davidchambers.me> wrote:

> Are you suggesting that a paragraph consisting solely of text that looks like 
> a URL should be treated specially based on its file extension? Something 
> along these lines could work, but would probably be quite fragile.
> 
> On 14 November 2013 at 10:06:16 am, Johannes Wärn (warn.johan...@gmail.com) 
> wrote:
> 
>> I will start of with an example of what I would like to be able to write in 
>> Markdown. 
>> 
>> --- 
>> 
>> This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this. 
>> 
>> This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some pictures 
>> of my cat. 
>> 
>> http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg 
>> 
>> http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg 
>> 
>> http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif 
>> 
>> That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking: 
>> 
>> http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3 
>> 
>> And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly: 
>> 
>> http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4 
>> 
>> --- 
>> 
>> I think it’s clear that the output I am suggesting for this would be 
>> something along these lines: 
>> 
>> <p>This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this.</p> 
>> <p>This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some 
>> pictures of my cat.</p> 
>> <div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg"/></div> 
>> <div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg"/></div> 
>> <div><img src="http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif"/></div> 
>> <p>That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking:</p> 
>> <audio src="http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3";></audio> 
>> <p>And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly:</p> 
>> <video src="http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4";></video> 
>> 
>> I’d also say that the advantage of the syntax is clear: it’s dead simple. 
>> Furthermore it downgrades quite nicely. 
>> 
>> There are of course problems it does not solve and extra complexity it would 
>> introduce; however, I thought I’d write this short email to see if anyone 
>> would be interested in discussing the idea. 
>> 
>> Thank you for reading, 
>> Johannes Wärn 
>> 
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