Re: a JavaScript front-end for Babelmark

2008-03-31 Thread John Fraser
Oops, I just realized I've been missing about half of the messages on Markdown-discuss ever since I switched servers last week. Should be fixed now. But Michel, I'm sorry I missed this: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001230.html As I told Tom, I'd like a

Re: a JavaScript front-end for Babelmark

2008-03-31 Thread John Fraser
On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Milian Wolff wrote: Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb John Fraser: I've built a quick-and-dirty diff GUI for Babelmark (thanks, Michel!). You can get it as a bookmarklet here: http://attacklab.net/babelmark/ Great, what about grouping by output? So that one can

Re: on the philosophical aspects of a specification

2008-03-05 Thread John Fraser
On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Michel Fortin wrote: Yeah, the list implementation in Markdown.pl and PHP Markdown doesn't follow the at all the little of a spec we have now. I've been thinking about rewriting the list parser in PHP Markdown, but I'm wondering what to do to not suddenly change

Re: on the philosophical aspects of a specification

2008-03-05 Thread John Fraser
On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Waylan Limberg wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Vinay Augustine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * no spaces - level 1 * 4 spaces - level 2 * 6 spaces - level 3 * 2 spaces - level 1.5 ??? With the rule just proposed, wouldn't the last line simply be

Re: on the philosophical aspects of a specification

2008-03-05 Thread John Fraser
On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:38 PM, david parsons wrote: When I write a really long list, * sometimes, after a particularly long and detailed list item, I'll lose track of the exact indentation and * add one too many spaces to the leading indent. so it would be bad if

Re: evolving the spec (was: forking Markdown.pl?)

2008-03-01 Thread John Fraser
it gets confused, we'd need to define all the corner cases completely -- or risk locking users into a particular reading of the spec. I'm all for writing a specification, but I think its purpose should be to inform and to justify a reference implementation and test suite. - John Fraser

Re: evolving the spec (was: forking Markdown.pl?)

2008-02-29 Thread John Fraser
in this approach, I'll try to do a quick hand-wavy prototype next week to show what I'm talking about. John Fraser http://wmd-editor.com/ (going open source soon) ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net

Re: Benchmarks with TextMate's manual

2007-08-28 Thread John Fraser
to process the fixed TextMate manual on your computer. John Fraser ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: Benchmarks with TextMate's manual

2007-08-27 Thread John Fraser
to JavaScript. I'd originally planned to write a Markdown parser from scratch, but quickly realized it would be impossible to get 100% compatibility without doing a direct, line-by-line port. And that's a bad sign. John Fraser ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list

Re: Markdown generates invalid html for a list immediately followed by a quote

2007-07-17 Thread John Fraser
to I mean that it's a descendant of that node -- not a sibling. So item 10 is part of the list that's nested within item 1. John Fraser ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown

Re: div span support

2007-03-05 Thread John Fraser
the board. -John On 3/5/07, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, * John Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-05 15:35]: On 3/5/07, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've come to appreciate the fact that it means you can pump the output of Markdown back through Markdown without