Re: forking Markdown.pl?
* Tomas Doran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-18 13:15]: My preferred solution would be for the 'original' (i.e. daringfireball brand) Markdown to have most of the code in a module called Text::Markdown, but to supply a script wrapper called Markdown.pl which provides the original functionality. This is what I've done in Text::Markdown currently so that people get the best of both worlds. Note that this doesn’t mean giving up ease of installation that people currently get. (Ie. non-Perl people, which is basically every end-user, for whom it is admittedly a burden to install a CPAN distribution, can just drop a file in some directory and maybe +x it and that’s it.) The model here would be Andy Lester’s _ack_ utility (an awesome grep replacement for trees of source code): it’s available from CPAN as the App::Ack distribution written in the regular way, as a module using several other modules and invoked from a small script. Anyone familiar with Perl who knows how to install modules can install this just like any other CPAN distro. But the distro’s build script also has a target that rounds up all the necessary modules and pastes them into the script file, producing a program that needs just perl itself preinstalled on a machine; this is available as `ack-standalone` from Andy’s site for ack. That way, people who don’t know about modules and CPAN and all that can just copy a single file onto their machine and be off to the races. That seems like a perfectly suitable model to handle Markdown.pl. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
HTML5's audio/video and Markdown
Does anyone have any toughts on how one should be using video audio with Markdown? Using the link or the img syntax? Maybe: [a film](film.m4v) [an audio](audio.mp3) could create: video src=film.m4v controlsa href=film.m4va film/a/ video audio src=audio.mp4 controlsa href=audio.m4van audio/a/ audio Other suggestions? ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: HTML5's audio/video and Markdown
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Aslak Raanes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any toughts on how one should be using video audio with Markdown? Using the link or the img syntax? Other suggestions? This would fall under raw html. You should simple write your own html directly in the markdown document just the way you want it. The parser will pass it though unchanged. If you question this answer, go re-read the [Inline HTML][] section of the syntax rules. The way I read it, this is the only appropriate solution. [InlineHTML]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html -- Waylan Limberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: HTML5's audio/video and Markdown
Aslak Raanes wrote: | Does anyone have any toughts on how one should be using video | audio with Markdown? Using the link or the img syntax? Aslak, As I think has been mentioned, this seems like it might be a better use case for raw HTML (which Markdown was designed to allow for), rather than some new syntax extension. I mean, really, which of the following is easier to type, remember, and understand on re-reading? Here's a video of the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dog: [EMAIL PROTECTED](foxydog.m4v) Wow! Or: Here's a video of the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dog: video src=foxydog.m4v controlsvideo/video Wow! Where Markdown has its own syntax, rather than HTML syntax, it is almost all for cases where there is a natural, easy, and expressive way to type something in plaintext, with the main inspiration being plaintext e-mail style. But there is no natural, easy, and expressive way to represent embedded video or audio in plaintext, because that's not something anybody tries to represent in plaintext. You may as well use the HTML syntax as anything else, it seems to me. -C ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
