Tao Klerks
2011-Sep-19 11:54 UTC
Arbitrary in-content metadata or markup extensions - standard/consensus/process?
Hi, I'm new to this list, sorry if my question is off-topic - I already see some controversy around a related question last month, "Universal syntax for Markdown". I'm wondering whether among the many extensions and flavors of markdown there are any extensions that support "Highlighting" of specific portions of content - not in the sense of code highlighters, but rather as you would do when reviewing a document, for example in Microsoft Word's "Change Tracking" mode - like using a physical highlighter pen on paper. I am interested in creating an extension (probably to MarkdownDeep, as I'm most comfortable in the microsoft dev stack) that supports these types of features, and I'm wondering what sort of syntax would be most "faithful" to existing markdown standards. On the one hand, I see Maruku's curly-braces proposal for arbitrary meta-data on arbitrary elements (http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html), and on the other hand I see stackoverflow using very different "Tags" syntax as [tag:Something] and "Spoilers" as a variation on blockquote. Maybe the closest thing to what I'm looking for is Abbreviation functionality (in that it applies to a section of text) or Footnote functionality (in that it links to more detailed content at a separate location) in Markdown Extra; I'm just wondering whether anyone knows of other implementations that provide more appropriate functionality for "Commenting on someone else's document/text", and/or where people who want to design these types of syntax extensions hang out and agree (or whether it's a free-for-all when you're looking to implement something new :)) Maybe the simplest way to ask this would be: Does anyone know of a single place/resource where someone is tracking all the extensions to markdown syntax by implementation/flavour for easy review/comparison/inspiration? I'm hoping for something like the "Flavour Comparison" page of regular-expressions.info (I love that site the only possible criticism, I think, is the slightly dated logo/header): http://www.regular-expressions.info/refflavors.html (ok, reading through the "Universal syntax for Markdown" thread, it looks like that's a little na?ve/hopeful in my part - in case that is actually an ongoing effort, I'd love to help!) Ok, done blabbling, thanks for any hints/thoughts/help, Tao -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/attachments/20110919/986842ae/attachment.html>
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