Having read a couple of hundred academic papers over the last couple of years, I would agree that most have single paragraph abstracts, but the frequency of something more complex has surprised me. Several paragraphs and unordered lists aren't unheard of. I'd like to see MMD handle this level of complexity with the same degree of unflustered competence that seems to be the norm. Denoting an abstract with a tag saying "Abstract" (with or without a colon) seems reasonable. Terminating it with 2 or more consecutive blank lines would also seem to fit the style. Presumably there's no restriction on the use of LaTex-like MathJax in abstracts? Assuming that the relevant metadata is defined first of course. Regards, Paul Wilson -- "Software - secure, cheap, quick - choose any two" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/attachments/20110919/e319087d/attachment.html>