Link syntax (was: definition lists?)

2008-11-21 Thread Thomas Nichols
Tangentially, I notice that this post by Waylan uses a link syntax which doesn't seem to be defined by http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link but seems to work in some implementations at http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/ - that is, from the git repo [1] instead of from the git repo

Re: spaces and newlines before list markers (was: evolving the spec)

2008-03-02 Thread Thomas Nichols
Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote on 2008/03/02 18:26: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM, John Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tightening up indentation rules is definitely a breaking change, and I don't see any payoff for users here. If anything, we should be making indentation rules more

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

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Nichols
Waylan Limberg wrote on 2008/02/29 15:56: With all this discussion about evolving the spec, I think we want to remember the philosophy behind Markdown to begin with. Go re-read the Overview[1] of the syntax rules. ... snip ... Take the discussion a short time ago on this list regarding

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

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Nichols
Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote on 2008/02/29 17:14: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Thomas Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a spec/ruleset/syntax definition seems an admirable goal; does this necessarily imply that, for example, you should not be able to begin a list item with zero

spaces and newlines before list markers (was: evolving the spec)

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Nichols
Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote on 2008/02/29 17:14: As a slightly-OT aside, there's another view on this spaces before a list item issue that sees it as a bug. When I write a list of references in a academic paper, I do so with list items. I do a hanging indent where the rest of the reference is

Re: spaces and newlines before list markers (was: evolving the spec)

2008-02-29 Thread Thomas Nichols
Waylan Limberg wrote on 2008/03/01 6:12: Hmm, I don't remember reading that before. Was it always there? Not sure. Been there for a cuple of years at least, I think. Anyway, to be honest this has been the hardest thing about markdown for me to wrap my head around (and probably why I

Re: Markdown MIME type?

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Nichols
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote on 2008/02/04 13:44: * Thomas Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-04 14:10]: When this came up on the list before I think there was a consensus that `text/x-markdown` is usable -- possibly with a URI to identify the Markdown syntax used. Did I understand

Re: Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Nichols
Michel Fortin wrote: Le 2007-06-20 à 5:51, Thomas Nichols a écrit : Having a mime type of 'text/x-markdown' and a profile URI declared by the author of the language grammar (e.g. http://maruku.org/0.5;) seems an economical solution, and would follow the pattern for [XML namespaces][xml

Re: Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Nichols
Andrea Censi wrote: Excellent, thank you very much; using fragment identifiers for versions works for me. Andrea, would you be happy with http://maruku.org/syntax http://maruku.org/syntax#0.5 as profiles? OK for me. It's better with a final slash: http://maruku.org/syntax/#ver

Re: Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Nichols
Phil Mocek wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:45:08PM +0100, Thomas Nichols wrote: Ok -- so your primary profile would be http://maruku.org/syntax/ and the current spec would have a profile of http://maruku.org/syntax/#0.5 is that correct? This would allow us to chop the fragment

Re: Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

2007-06-20 Thread Thomas Nichols
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-16 15:15]: Le 2007-06-16 à 2:57, A. Pagaltzis a écrit : * Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-16 01:30]: Specifically, what happens if I change the page URL to PHP Markdown Extra some day?

Re: Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

2007-06-15 Thread Thomas Nichols
Sam Angove wrote: On 6/15/07, Thomas Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the experimental types indicated by 'x.' and 'x-' might also be a possibility in the short term, but is not recommended; a properly registered mime type in the main tree would provide a clear standardisation

Revisiting mime-types and file extensions

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Nichols
Hi, I'm in the process of adding support for Markdown to a minimal CMS in Rails, [Railfrog][railfrog], which uses mime types to select appropriate processing. I have had a look through the archives but have not been able to see that a consensus has emerged as to what such a mime type for Markdown