Re: Markdown turned my slash (/) into / and my double quote (") into "

2019-01-28 Thread Alan Hogan
Markdown doesn’t do that. Markdown input is plain text and the output is HTML, including some HTML entities, but not double-encoded such that they would be visible when rendered as HTML. If you are seeing entities in code blocks in the web pages you created with Prose (which I haven’t tried), t

Re: an interesting throwaway line

2017-07-27 Thread Alan Hogan
I’m not surprised that plus (+) is so uncommon. It doesn't look like a bullet and requires more work than hyphen. Perhaps interestingly, however, my old experimental tool pmitool.com has a Markdown export mode that uses all three, because it generates lists of positive, negative, and neutral it

Instantly convert a webpage to Markdown

2017-04-05 Thread Alan Hogan
at off-topic 2012 thread wherein the poster sought a way to turn a webpage into an email.) Alan Hogan ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: Can I use _____? Markdown Version - Anyone?

2016-03-21 Thread Alan Hogan
Great idea. I like it. >From the escaped line break page: > Note: in multiline and grid table cells, this is the only way to create a > hard line break, since trailing spaces in the cells are ignored. Wouldn't a simple work as well? Alan > On Mar 21, 2016, at 3:16 AM, Gerald Bauer wrote: >

Re: Installing Markdown

2016-02-25 Thread Alan Hogan
Yes! There are quite a number of such tools. GitHub Gists themselves have a preview / result view, IIRC, but it’s not side-by-side. There are websites that do this, though, and desktop software, as well. I don’t use Windows, though, so I can’t recommend any for that system.

Re: Installing Markdown

2016-02-25 Thread Alan Hogan
The thing is, if you have been asked to submit a document in markdown format, you don’t need any software at all, at least not beyond your favorite text editor (or Github's website itself). Just use .md instead of .txt as the file extension. Markdown the software takes a Markdown-formatted docum

Re: markdown wiki for compiling documentation

2016-01-09 Thread Alan Hogan
> Hi Alan, > can you send me some link about GitHub? > It sounds me in a right way, but I didn't find anything on the github > web site. > > Renato > > Il giorno mar, 05/01/2016 alle 18.54 -0800, Alan Hogan ha scritto: >> GitHub provides Markdown-powered

Re: markdown wiki for compiling documentation

2016-01-05 Thread Alan Hogan
ginal Markdown in a number of ways (and even more so when [[wiki syntax]] is added). You may want to let Github provide the HTML output, and pipe *that* into pandoc (modulo additional processing) for the best and most reliable results. Best of luck with your project! Alan

Re: does fireball markdown support anchor links?

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Hogan
ble fact that so many Markdown converters ignore it. Not to pick on showdown, but look at its output: This is a header {#a-header} Compare output of my example above on Babelmark2: http://ajh.us/babelmark2-header-id-syntax --   Alan Hogan

Re: does fireball markdown support anchor links?

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Hogan
One final thought on the topic: If I were to pick a preferred format for auto-generated IDs, it would have to be hyphens. Separating words is desirable as it is more readable. And underscores, though not a terrible option, can be obscured by underlines when the entire URL is presented to a user.

Re: does fireball markdown support anchor links?

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Hogan
IDs. Notably, most implementations do not do it at all (as would be expected, given that original Markdown does not, either). See the above example for yourself on Babelmark 2: http://ajh.us/babelmark2-section-ids Cheers, Alan Hogan ___ Markdown-Discuss m

Re: Beamer and TOC

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Hogan
Markdown itself doesn’t have a TOC feature (although some implementations do). You will have better luck filing an issue with whoever is responsible for Beamer. Alan > On Jul 8, 2015, at 5:39 PM, David Feitosa wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to create a beamer presentation with a TOC, > bu

Re: september is still the cruelest month

2014-09-25 Thread Alan Hogan
Same here. Great introduction so far. > On Sep 25, 2014, at 2:17 PM, ubi de feo wrote: > > looking forward to more > u > > > > > On 25 Sep 2014, at 23:09, bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss > wrote: > >> maybe perhaps it's time to go "beyond markdown". >> >> i don't want to talk about you be

Re: Source code highlighting in Markdown (currently Multimarkdown)

2014-09-23 Thread Alan Hogan
Jan, It seems like you might already know of highlight.js: https://highlightjs.org/ I understand that this may not seem to address use case #2, but since highlight.js supports node.js, you can probably use it in your build scripts (instead of in the browser). Note al

Re: Markdown within block-level elements

2014-09-17 Thread Alan Hogan
On Sep 17, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Michel Fortin wrote: > I'll just point out that the markdown="1" trick should be credited to John > Gruber. Thanks. Sorry for getting that wrong. > CommonMark interprets it "right" according to your intent, but the Markdown > spec by John Gruber is very explicit

Markdown within block-level elements

2014-09-17 Thread Alan Hogan
HTML5 standard. Thanks for your consideration. Alan Hogan ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: when rational discussion was still a possibility

2014-09-06 Thread Alan Hogan
> On Sep 6, 2014, at 12:08 AM, Andrei Fangli wrote: > > The JavaScript version is only good for preview at client-side to avoid > posting to the server one to many times. To do client-side parsing and > sending it to the server in the final format is a serious security leak > (trusting that a

"Standard Markdown" renames to CommonMark

2014-09-05 Thread Alan Hogan
I'm sure most of you will see this anyway, but as of the last hour or so, "Standard Markdown" has been renamed to CommonMark (or Common Markdown — there is some ambiguity). See also Atwood’s blog post:

Re: text/markdown effort in IETF (invite)

2014-07-10 Thread Alan Hogan
On Jul 10, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Waylan Limberg wrote: > In my experience, REST API's (for example) use JSON or XML which may contain > some Markdown text among other data. That other data may identify that the > text is "markdown", but the mime type for the file is JSON or XML (or at > least the

Re: Links in Code Blocks

2014-03-26 Thread Alan Hogan
This will never be a feature, as half the point of a code block, in Markdown, is to opt out of Markdown syntax recognition. I would agree, this is a job for HTML (or, perhaps, a post-Markdown linkifying script, depending on your use case). Alan > Le Mar 26, 2014 à 10:25 AM, Tom Maynard a écr

Re: How often do you use inline images? wrapper is really useful?

2014-03-06 Thread Alan Hogan
Thank you all for the replies. I hadn't realized that XHTML was so important for e-book publishing. Alan > On Mar 6, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote: > > I should add to my point that the primary reason I use Markdown is for > writing prose that will be converted into EPUB or X

Re: How often do you use inline images? wrapper is really useful?

2014-03-06 Thread Alan Hogan
People still care about XHTML validation? HTML5 has done a much better job of unifying behavior across clients and tools everywhere. But maybe I misunderstand your point. Alan > On Mar 5, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Jak Wings wrote: > > Good idea. I have never thought of it. But it is a new element o

Re: Github-style fenced code blocks

2013-09-30 Thread Alan Hogan
I just used the tilde style today on GitHub, before reading this thread. Honestly, it's hard to remember what supports what; I would prefer for all implementations to support all three styles (back-tick, tilde, indented) in order to maximize portability and minimize surprise. (StackOverflow ge

Re: [ANN] vfmd

2013-09-26 Thread Alan Hogan
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Re: fan_fucking_tastic

2013-07-05 Thread Alan Hogan
ling with parentheses in URLs]: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2013-June/002845.html Alan Hogan ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: attribute blocks for definition lists

2013-07-01 Thread Alan Hogan
On Jul 1, 2013, at 8:33 AM, Matthieu Codron wrote: > As I am using markdown to write documentation, I am often tempted to make > links to terms in definition lists. > > Since this is not possible for now (at least in php markdown extra), […] It is. You just have to write your anchors manually

Re: footnote:id, colons and jquery

2013-01-23 Thread Alan Hogan
put]: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#fn-output > > -- > > \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| > Waylan Limberg > ___ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairli

Re: horizontal space/indent and HTML/PDF

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Hogan
On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Koralatov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 15:57, Chris Lott wrote: > >> What is the best method to introduce horizontal space in text in a >> Pandoc document? Preferably something that would work for both HTML and >> PDF output? >> I need this for some poetry that

Re: the future of markdown, according to jeff atwood (and/or david greenspan)

2012-10-25 Thread Alan Hogan
On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:21 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote: > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html Quoth Atwood: > Markdown is a wonderful tool, but it does suffer a bit from [lack of project > leadership][]. [lack of project leadership]: http://www.codinghorror

Re: Trouble with parentheses in Markdown hyperlinks

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Hogan
make sense on GH, too. So in a way, a GitHub wiki might prod us to keep thinking about more ways Markdown can be used, and perhaps even start thinking about adopting #2 and #3 in a hypothetical Markdown 2.0, and making wiki syntax an officially available option… Or not. Alan Hogan

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Hogan
Folks, my apologies. Those links seem to break after running through the listserv. Below, I use my URL shortener to give you un-breakable links. My original suggestion to Thomas: http://ajh.us/bmd1 The actual link to the funny lunamark behavior: http://ajh.us/bmd2 Alan smime.p7s Description:

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Hogan
In the same vein, here’s some Markdown input that does something really interesting in Lunamark. http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=%3E+foo%0A%3Cbr%3E%0A%3E+bar%0A%3Cbr%3E%0A%3E+baz /ajh smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature __

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Hogan
gular linebreak] > > But of course this is still an ugly workaraound. Is there another way to go > about this? > > Looking forward to any hints, > > Thomas > > ___ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Mark

Re: Trouble with parentheses in Markdown hyperlinks

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Hogan
I use adblock, so I'm not sure. > > Boris > > On 10/24/2012 07:46 PM, Alan Hogan wrote: >> I only ever dealt with .tk domains as a teen when I couldn’t afford a real >> domain, and they would basically your real site and add >> advertisements. It wasn’t a go

Re: Trouble with parentheses in Markdown hyperlinks

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Hogan
t; Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss Alan Hogan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: Multidingus

2012-10-19 Thread Alan Hogan
Here’s a tiny bookmarklet that can be run on Babelmark 2 as it stands today, that replaces all the elements on the page with an HTML preview: javascript:$('pre').each(function(i, el){ var html = $(el).text(); $(el).replaceWith($('').html(html)); }); Or, you may drag it into your bookmarks

Re: Multidingus

2012-10-19 Thread Alan Hogan
ul this can be: > > http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?text=%2B+++item+1%0D%0A%0D%0A%2B+++item+2%0D%0A%0D%0A+*+++*+++*+++*+++* That’s really, really great, John. Alan Hogan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Markdow

Re: Multidingus

2012-10-18 Thread Alan Hogan
st, without sacrificing scannability of output, if so desired. > >> 4) In general, shouldn’t it be the multi-dingus’ job to protect against >> malicious code, instead of individual implementors? This would reduce >> the "attac

Re: Multidingus

2012-10-18 Thread Alan Hogan
On Oct 18, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Fletcher Penney wrote: > Not to mention everyone will want to make sure to do some input > "sanitization" on the text input to try to filter mischievous input. 1) Consider *only* accepting requests from the multi-dingus. Perhaps it could be as simple as a shared

Re: Trouble with parentheses in Markdown hyperlinks

2012-10-18 Thread Alan Hogan
27;t have > any... > > So, it's possible, but I can't do it myself ;) > ___ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss Alan Hogan smime.

Re: Trouble with parentheses in Markdown hyperlinks

2012-10-17 Thread Alan Hogan
ng by now? Do we have any usage data on the various Markdown > implementations? > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > www.yellosoft.us > ___ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net

Re: Disabling certain stuff for my forum

2012-08-12 Thread Alan Hogan
> Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss Alan Hogan Sent via virtual pigeon ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: Footnote output not valid.

2012-08-08 Thread Alan Hogan
forward might be to include both > rev=footnote rel=footnote-ref, unless someone has specified a flag to prevent > the rev attribute from showing up. That makes a lot of sense and sounds like the best plan to me. Alan Hogan Sent via virtual pigeon _

Re: Footnote output not valid

2012-08-07 Thread Alan Hogan
I find it hard to understand why rel=footnote would have been dropped. In general, I do see the value in only using registered rel attribute values. You can’t propose native rel functionality if it’s seeing much use to mean something else. However, since rel=footnote *was* valid at some po

A use of Markdown that caught my eye: Archiving tweets.

2012-07-03 Thread Alan Hogan
currently work for IFTTT, which powers those recipes, but I’m sharing only because I thought this was a pretty clever use of Markdown. It’s basically jamming a little bit of markup onto what would otherwise be a plain-text dump.) Alan Hogan ___ Markdown

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-23 Thread Alan Hogan
Generated content (:after) would be awkward for this purpose. It is not selectable in many browsers, and experiences more bugs and rendering issues than normal elements. Alan On Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Klaus Mueller wrote: > Hi all, > > at all, I think there is an wide need

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Alan Hogan
> ![alttext](http://exampl.com/img.jpg) > : here goes the *caption* I *really* like this proposal. It takes the extant image and DL (in Extra-style implementations) syntaxes and smartly combines them into something even better when they’re mashed-up. Very memorable and visually meaningful. Thi

Re: Paragraphs and html integration.

2012-06-20 Thread Alan Hogan
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Jakob wrote: > On the daring fireball page it says > >> If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the list >> with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support >> starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number. > > I am cod

Re: Paragraphs and html integration.

2012-06-20 Thread Alan Hogan
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Jakob wrote: > On the daring fireball page it says > >> If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the list >> with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support >> starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number. > > I am cod

Re: [text][index](url) syntax

2012-05-30 Thread Alan Hogan
I haven’t ever seen that used in plaintext writing before, which would make the syntax probably violate the principle of being derived from email list / plain text patterns. More concerning is that now potentially literal brackets that were adjacent to a link, if anyone had that, would now be l

Re: Hanging Indent for APA style references

2012-04-26 Thread Alan Hogan
No, but you can use HTML (and thus also CSS) within a Markdown document. On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Jeremy Bruce wrote: > I've done a few google searches but haven't been able to come up with > anything. > Does markdown have support for hanging indents for APA style references? > > _

Re: a blade of grass cracks the sidewalk

2012-04-20 Thread Alan Hogan
Congrats on shipping a nice dingus, Bowerbird. It does indeed look like an extremely clean and powerful syntax. Small question — What causes the entire first page to be in bold? Convention? Styles applied after your transformation to HTML? Alan On Apr 20, 2012, at 4:14 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wr

Re: what will january 19th bring?

2012-01-19 Thread Alan Hogan
Well, I appreciated the thread anyway, Bowerbird. ajh On Jan 19, 2012, at 7:54 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote: > [heavy sigh.] > > ok, well, i guess it's time for me to go to work... > > -bowerbird ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six

Re: what will january 19th bring?

2012-01-18 Thread Alan Hogan
On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:14 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote: > how many of you use "pages"? i thought not.) I actually really like it, largely because it feels so much lighter, better-looking, and native than Word. I love the way Pages handles paragraph/heading styles. Like CSS (and like Word), bu

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread Alan Hogan
Are you putting spaces between ] and ( ? You shouldn't. ajh On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:52 AM, "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am just starting out with Markdown and am trying to get two elements > working: > > (1) An inline HTML link; and > > (2) An inline mailto: link >

Re: A bug or an undocumented feature?

2012-01-02 Thread Alan Hogan
This is the exact "bug" I joined this mailing list to "report" (having also used Python-Markdown), and what fueled my desire to see Markdown 2.0. I do still very much wish we could agree that this really is a bug, as far as being a completely unexpected result. Very sad that nothing seems to ch

Re: ToDo List Notation

2011-12-11 Thread Alan Hogan
http://simp.ly/publish/8g02Sq The above link isn't really a markdown thing, but is compatible with existing hyphen-based markdown lists. On Dec 11, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Clint Laskowski wrote: > I just joined this mail-list, so I apologize if this has been discussed > before, but: > > Has anyon

Re: Help with Error: POSIX collating elements are not supported

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Hogan
The maintainer is Michel Fortin, who is quite talented and a good maintainer. However, I’m not sure how much time he really has for the project anymore (it’s been years since he created the influential PHP Markdown Extra language/script). On Dec 9, 2011, at 2:38 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote: > d

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2011-12-09 Thread Alan Hogan
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Re: markdown and vim

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Hogan
On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Christian Sciberras wrote: > Why should I spare it to the whole list? Because, by all indications, the list isn't interested. Please keep posts more informative or constructive. Alan ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list M

Re: let's see what the app store says

2011-11-21 Thread Alan Hogan
I also find it quite a stretch to call Bowerbird a troll! Usually the worst you could call him is "opinionated" and "too frequent a poster for some tastes." I found his App Store updates interesting. Your vitriol adds nothing. I bet if we all got together and had a couple drinks, there'd be no

Re: Object-oriented PHP implementation is coming, looking for parties

2011-11-02 Thread Alan Hogan
On Oct 27, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Max Tsepkov wrote: > 2011/10/27 Alan Hogan : >> Max, are you using a grammar, as has been discussed on this list recently, >> or regexes? That is, might your parser be susceptible to the same bug? > I subscribed to the list just few days ago, cou

Re: Best way to automatically number sections

2011-10-27 Thread Alan Hogan
; reset the "h2" counter every time the "h level" goes from h1 to h2, etc. You'll also need to have an idea for how you want to handle "edge cases" (in HTML edge cases are expected) like going from h1 to h3. Sorry that's all I have for you. Alan Hogan

Re: Object-oriented PHP implementation is coming, looking for parties

2011-10-26 Thread Alan Hogan
discussed on this list recently, or regexes? That is, might your parser be susceptible to the same bug? Alan Hogan On Oct 26, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Max Tsepkov wrote: > Hello, list. > My name is Max, I'm a web developer. > > I found Markdown convention very useful, I use it ev

Re: Metadata syntax (was Universal syntax for Markdown)

2011-08-29 Thread Alan Hogan
On Aug 26, 2011, at 11:01 AM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote: > > there's something else that i generally put under "metadata" > -- which other people do not -- which are the specifications > used to create the output-formats. these include things like > straight-quotes vs. curly, indented paragraphs

Re: Universal syntax for Markdown

2011-08-10 Thread Alan Hogan
hing to gain for the implementors by > doing so. I wonder if a Kickstarter project would be appropriate. In theory, it wouldn’t hurt to try, as if we did not get enough pledges, we would not be obligated to proceed. Alan Hogan ___ Markdown-Discuss mai

Re: Universal syntax for Markdown

2011-08-10 Thread Alan Hogan
Fletcher, thank you for your reply, and for all your work on MMD. I think the vision you just outlined is one I agree with completely. On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Fletcher T. Penney wrote: > All this said, however, I think an important consideration for this > discussion is: > > > What

Re: Universal syntax for Markdown

2011-08-10 Thread Alan Hogan
On Aug 10, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Alan Hogan wrote: > On Aug 10, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 16:29, David Chambers >> wrote: >>> >>> I don't understand why a significant number of people in this community feel >>

Re: Universal syntax for Markdown

2011-08-10 Thread Alan Hogan
On Aug 10, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 16:29, David Chambers > wrote: >> >> I don't understand why a significant number of people in this community feel >> that Markdown is a special case and that each of us should be responsible >> for extending it as we see

Re: Universal syntax for Markdown

2011-08-10 Thread Alan Hogan
> Hi, > > because of the great editor "Writer" from Information Architects I've > learned about Markdown and I love it. But it's very confusing, that > there are so many standards with different features: classical > Markdown, Markdown Extra, MultiMarkdown. I think for most users and > the spread

Re: can you see the present?

2011-07-27 Thread Alan Hogan
Very cool, Bowerbird! On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:12 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote: > here's a little present for y'all... > > > http://jaguarps.com/tools/jaguar-editor-727.png > > that's a screenshot of my latest project... > > i've slapped a little text-editor in front of > my e-book conversion ro

Re: php-markdown-extra-extended - my humble attempt at extending php-markdown

2011-07-13 Thread Alan Hogan
To be clear, I am 100% focused on this syntax in this email (and probably the last email or two): [span contents here](class:someClass) On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM, David Parsons wrote: > You're looking at markdown like some sort of intermediate > language that's not designed for w

Re: php-markdown-extra-extended - my humble attempt at extending php-markdown

2011-07-13 Thread Alan Hogan
It seems to me that your syntax, compared to Maruku's attribute lists, is less powerful, less commonly implemented, and more ambiguous; and that its only upshot is looking better to your eyes. Fair enough? Or am I missing something? Alan Hogan http://blogic.com cont...@alanhogan.com

Re: writing tools that use light-markup

2011-07-13 Thread Alan Hogan
One more Markdown editor: Brett Terpstra's plugin for Wordpress, "Markdown Quicktags." http://brettterpstra.com/project/markdown-quicktags/ (He also just released Marked, basically a standalone, auto-refreshing Markdown preview window, in the Mac App Store.) ___

Re: php-markdown-extra-extended - my humble attempt at extending php-markdown

2011-07-13 Thread Alan Hogan
be broken in the future by tech changes outside the realm of Markdown parsers' control. Alan Hogan http://blogic.com cont...@alanhogan.com ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: php-markdown-extra-extended - my humble attempt at extending php-markdown

2011-07-13 Thread Alan Hogan
I was not aware of Kramdown before. I'm delighted to see that it refuses to merge unordered and ordered lists (which I was complaining about a month ago on this list). http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html#ordered-and-unordered-lists Alan Hogan http://blogic.com cont...@alanhoga

Re: php-markdown-extra-extended - my humble attempt at extending php-markdown

2011-07-13 Thread Alan Hogan
Waylan, out of curiosity, which implementations are those? Is yours one? Alan Hogan http://blogic.com cont...@alanhogan.com On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Waylan Limberg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Egil Hansen (mailto:e...@assimilated.dk)> wrote: > &

Re: writing tools that use light-markup

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Hogan
Two more things I want to mention in this discussion: 1. Markdown syntax highlighting in TextMate is somewhat useful. 2. StackOverflow uses a bastard markdown (no line break ignoring, no raw HTML allowed), but their editor includes some buttons reminiscent of BBCode or MetaWiki syntax editors,

Re: writing tools that use light-markup

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Hogan
page. 2. Simplenote of course syncs with iOS so said notes can be edited on the go. However the iOS client does not support Markdown preview. Simplenote’s Markdown supports loads of the “Extra” syntax, thanks to markdown-python. (Note you must register to use the editor.) Alan Hogan

Re: `time` element syntax

2011-06-27 Thread Alan Hogan
Make it four! Alan Hogan Blogic, Inc. http://blogic.com On Jun 26, 2011, at 5:05 AM, David Chambers mailto:david.chambers...@gmail.com)> wrote: > Three people on markdown-discuss in agreement? Must be a new record. :) ___ Markdown-Discuss m

Re: plain text & feature creep

2011-06-23 Thread Alan Hogan
es less clear. Such tasks should likely exist in separate layers or in templating languages like Jinja2. Those are my initial thoughts, anyway. Alan Hogan ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: markdown conversions

2011-06-23 Thread Alan Hogan
On Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Seumas Mac Uilleachan wrote: > On 06/23/2011 05:29 PM, bowerb...@aol.com (mailto:bowerb...@aol.com) wrote: > > alan said: > > > I think I am in agreement, > > > if by "isn't necessary" you mean to say that > > > simply providing more features to Markd

Re: markdown conversion routines

2011-06-23 Thread Alan Hogan
Quoth bowerbird: > as far as what gruber would find to be > distasteful about "multimarkdown", i'd > say the answer would be perfectly clear: > multimarkdown has sacrificed simplicity > for power, a trade gruber wouldn't make. > and one, frankly, which isn't necessary... I think I am in agreemen

Re: markdown conversion routines

2011-06-22 Thread Alan Hogan
Is there a place that lists differences between different flavors? Alan http://blogic.com cont...@alanhogan.com On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 1:31 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote: > i am considering writing converters > between my "zen markup language' > and "markdown", but i don't know > whic

Re: Data loss issue: Adjacent List Types

2011-06-13 Thread Alan Hogan
On Monday, June 13, 2011 at 2:10 PM, David Parsons wrote: > > On Jun 13, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Alan Hogan wrote: > > > If you don't mind me reviving this issue, I just thought of another > > use case in which this bug, in its augmented definition that > > incl

Re: Data loss issue: Adjacent List Types

2011-06-13 Thread Alan Hogan
dered list: `list-plus`, `list-hyphen`, `list-asterisk`. Alan Hogan ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: Data loss issue: Adjacent List Types

2011-06-06 Thread Alan Hogan
Quoth _Lasar: > while I agree that this is technically an issue, I don't think it > is an often seen issue in actual human-written text. Markdown is > plain text formatted by and for humans. I don't think there are > many cases where you would want to put two lists after each other > without an i

Re: Data loss issue: Adjacent List Types

2011-06-06 Thread Alan Hogan
Esteemed human authors and robotic parse-bots: I recently discovered that most or all Markdown implementations, including Gruber’s original in Perl, have an odd behavior with regards to lists that follow each other. Namely, a bulleted list followed by a numbered list, or vice-versa, is masked a