On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
wrote:
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> Here is some old code I used in the past which was modified from some other
> converted I had written for Textile and BBCode.
Trevor, thank you very much.
>If I were writing the
> converter today I would use the styledText
Yeah, that's a really good suggestion.
I had thought of it - but the purist in me was reluctant to add a "magic
character sequence" without any escape mechanism. And the limitation of
"no whitespace" made it tricky to limit the context of the replace.
However - the fact that you made the sugg
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Kay C Lan via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Nor was I aware that mergMardownToXHMTL existed, so thank you for
> raising this thread so James could enlighten us. Now all I need is
> someone to tell me there is similar function that converts H
Alex wrote
> a trailing "*" in a URL would
> be converted to make the link open in a new browser tab/window - by
> changing it to? TARGET="_blank"
Couldn’t you simply replace your suitably chosen trailing characters with
TARGET="_blank" after using the function? (I mention characters as a sin
Well, just for completeness, I'll report that I have decided to use my
own simple-minded version rather than mergMarkdownToXHTML.
I had added one tiny convenience feature (a trailing "*" in a URL would
be converted to make the link open in a new browser tab/window - by
changing it to TARGET="
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
wrote:
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> (*) I read about Markdown; it was interesting; I learned something - no
> hours were truly "wasted"
>
Nor was I aware that mergMardownToXHMTL existed, so thank you for
raising this thread so James could enlighten us. Now all
On 04/11/2017 13:21, James At The Hale via use-livecode wrote:
You are aware of mergMarkdownToXHTML function from the mergmarkdown library, no?
In a word: "No." :-(
In a sentence: No, of course not; if I had known Monte had already done
this in a thorough way, I wouldn't have wasted (*) a co
You are aware of mergMarkdownToXHTML function from the mergmarkdown library, no?
When I was writing the code to format the description part of the docs (for the
Dash docset stack) I was reminded by Monte (I think) of this.
It works really well.
James
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I wanted to find a LC implementation of markdown, so I could easily use
markdown files on a website, and have them be converted to html for
output. I really wanted it completely in LC, so I could just include it
without worrying about installing, or checking for, any other languages,
scripts, e
