search for: justatheory

...yntax > in PHP Markdown Extra. Well, perhaps it's foolish of me, but since I'd already spent several hours writing it up before I saw that post, I went ahead and finished my proposal as an informal request for comments, which I've [blogged here][]: [blogged here] http://www.justatheory.com/computers/markup/markdown-table-rfc.html The high-level overview is this: * I looked at prior art from database clients and MultiMarkdown * I identified a few things I liked in the DB clients that aren't in MultiMarkdown (continuing lines, implicit cell alignment) * I offered some refi...

...????????????? What if Markdown used Unicode characters to express tables in this manner? All we need are two essential subsets of the Unicode box drawing characters: * thin ones for normal cells: ? ? ? ? ? ? * thick ones for heading cells: ? ? ? ? ? ? Thanks for your consideration. [1]: http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/markdown-table-rfc.html [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_drawing_characters [3]: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ [4]: http://www.december.com/html/demo/table.html [5]: http://snk.tuxfamily.org/tmp/w3m-tables.png

...e 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 blog](http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html ). If you would excuse the temerity of my late entry into what I'm sure has been a contentious issue, I would love feedback. In a nutshell, I embrace the PHP Markdown Extra syntax, with one change: I would like to see the colon replaced w...

...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 continuation in tables based on database outputs (see http://www.justatheory.com/computers/markup/markdown-table-rfc.html, and also recent discussion on this list). Text continuation seems to me to be a desirable addition to markdown, and DW's proposal looks very encouraging. The outstanding arguments I could find against his proposed ':' cell separator are:...

...resting ways, as well as cache parse results (but not HTML generation), and do other fun stuff. The module is also designed so that it's relatively easy(ish) to create Markdown dialects. Right now it ships with a dialect that supports David Wheeler's table syntax proposal at http://www.justatheory.com/computers/markup/markdown-table-rfc.html. The actual implementation is slightly different from David's proposal, but mostly with his blessing ;) The module is on CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Markdent/ I also wrote a bit about why this module can be useful in a blog post at http:...