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On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:51 AM, I wrote: > I can see that really opened a can of worms here. Sorry about that. > I'll have to move up my plan to formally propose a table syntax. The > comment that started this sub-thread was a throwaway line, really. I > probably should have omitted it. And then, on Feb 26, 2009, at 3:28 PM, John Gruber wrote: > 3. A hypothetical official

Hello, I read David Wheeler's table proposal[1] for Markdown and very much agree with his conclusion and PostgreSQL-inspired proposed format. I also read the mailing list archives for 2009 but did not find any clear concesus on whether DW's format was officially accepted (I hope it is soon!). However, I want to ask: has anyone considered taking these simple ASCII table drawings to the

Howdy, I've been thinking a lot about definition list syntax, and what I did and didn't like about the PHP Markdown Extra syntax (which seems to be a de-facto standard, discount notwithstanding, yes?). What I came up with is a single character change to the PHP Markdown Extra syntax. I just published a detailed explanation of my thoughts and reasoning for this on [my

Hello List, While translating documents in markdown, I've noticed that it is often necessary to continue table cell text on the following line, especially when limited to a narrow column, and especially in table headers. Unfortunately, this is impossible with the existing table syntax, which interprets each new line as a new table row. I see that David Wheeler proposed a syntax for a text

I've recently released a new Markdown parser in Perl, called Markdent. This differs from the existing Perl tools (and most other language tools I've seen) in that it's an event-driven parser. This lets you analyze the document in much more interesting ways, as well as cache parse results (but not HTML generation), and do other fun stuff. The module is also designed so that