similar to: Make --html4tags the default?

Noticed the patterns for setext style headings are: ^(.+)[ \t]*\n=+[ \t]*\n+ Should be: ^(.+?)[ \t]*\n=+[ \t]*\n+

A user has table-formatted data which contains accents and finds it problematic that his tables misalign after going through Markdown. This is because he made them align using tab characters and Markdown will convert these to spaces even in pre-formatted text and Markdown is not multi-byte aware. This raises two questions: 1. Should Markdown convert tabs to spaces in pre-formated text?

I was recently made aware of the the Markdown 1.0.2 beta 4 and naturally downloaded it in great anticipation, as I am a big fan of Markdown :) Though I did notice a significant performance drop: The TextMate manual is 3,000 lines (173 KB) and previously took 4-5 seconds to convert to HTML (measuring only time spent by `Markdown.pl`.) With the new version this has increased to almost 30

Markdowners, just a short heads-up to a newly released Markdown implementation: "pegdown" (http://github.com/sirthias/pegdown) implements a Java Markdown-to-HTML processor based on a PEG parser with the grammar being based on John MacFarlanes C implementation "peg-markdown". pegdown uses "parboiled" (http://www.parboiled.org) for the actual parsing work and, as

I recently subscribed and saw in the archive that Eric Astor was asking for a formal grammar (unlikely the first time for such request.) Currently there are a few problems in making such a thing so I was curious if Mr. Gruber has made any thoughts about moving toward one? This would also allow a more ?clean? parser which would get rid of some of the current problems (bad nesting[^1],

Hi, Is markdown a good language to use in a web forum application? How does it compare to bbcode in features and ease-of-use for non-technical users? I'm thinking of using jquery-markedit in that forum app. Thanks, -- http://www.cruisefish.net

Hello list ... I read all that I could at: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ as well as the man-page. I'm still not sure as to how to get the output written to a file instead of the screen. For example, I did: markdown --html4tags convert-this.txt Should I be redirecting the output to a file, like: markdown --html4tags convert-this.txt > convert-this.html -- Duke

i'll be doing some experiments myself, but i thought i'd ask here first about back-translation and round-tripping with markdown and its xhtml output. the object is to take markdown output, reduce it back to a markdown text-file, then regenerate the output again and compare it with the "original" output, repeating if necessary until there exists a pair of files that give perfect

Until today, the only way I offered PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra was with packaged zip files available on my website. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that some people would prefer a simpler path for keeping their copy of PHP Markdown up-to-date. So today I announce two additional ways of grabbing PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra. The first one is a PEAR channel which can be used

This update to PHP Markdown fix a bug that slipped in the WordPress interface with the last update. It also introduce a new "feature": you can now instruct the parser to ignore HTML tags and/or entities in the input. You can do this by instantiating yourself the parser and setting the `no_markup` or `no_entities` properties to true: $parser = new Markdown_Parser;

FYI, There was an interest from a few people to create a formalization of Markdown as it is currently implemented. A W3C Community Group has been created for moving forward and exploring the idea and create a spec if necessary. A W3C Community Group [1] is a platform for discussing, publishing about a topic. You just need a free public W3C account [2] The community markdown group [3] has

Hello everybody, I've just noticed that markdown doesn't always generate XHTML. In particular the input <script src="http://evilserver.net/evil.js"> generates the output: <p><script src="http://evilserver.net/evil.js"></p> (This is the markdown dingus at daring fireball, and the markdownj implementation exhibits the same problem. I

Hi All. I've just started using Markdown for my blog. So far it seems quite nice, but the one issue I've run into is a lack of "native" support for footnotes. I think that Daring Fireball's footnote style makes a lot of sense, and that's what I intend to use. However, it is a bit cumbersome to implement that style from within Markdown. I notice that the PHP

Python-markdown currently replaces all straight quotes (`"`) with the html entity (`&quot;`). Someone recently complained about this in a [bug report][]. As it turns out the quote was the symptom that brought the real problem to light[^1]. In any event, the reporter pointed out that markdown.pl does not replace straight quotes with the html entity. I know John Gruber has mentioned before

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote: > > "Safe mode" you say? Yeah, well, I didn't paint that bike shed. > > PHP Markdown also has a no-markup mode which would filter script tags > and any other HTML tags. But this doesn't prevent anyone from > inserting their own script on the page. Do you know you can

It would be useful if defining headers (either Setext and atx style), if Markdown would also generate corresponding anchors: ## This is an H2 ## would create: <a name="This is an H2"/> <h2>This is an H2</h2> Or something like that. Or is that available some different way? Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed

The html document various characters like ? \xa0 ? \xa9 (Copyright symbol) (and others). I tried using html2text.py but it didn't like these characters. Any ideas on how I can use iconv or another tool to convert documents like this so I can then convert to Markdown? I don't want to do manually as I have around 500+ documents. Jeremy C. Reed

I'm using Markdown in an app and would like to provide support for including a table of contents. Any suggestions for a syntax? Has anyone done this before? My first thoughts are: 1. Have a special header item (using markdown extra's header syntax), e.g. generate-contents: yes 2. Have a special xml tag with optional alternative text inside, e.g. <contents> 1. First thingy 2.

I have written a very small Rails plugin which makes it spit HTML back at you instead of XHTML. Find details here: http://dev.turnipspatch.com/trac/wiki/HTMLOutput Hope it''s useful to someone! Jon -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

a specification will _eventually_ be used, by someone, to tell the user they are doing things "wrong", won't it? and doesn't that turn markdown's genesis upside-down? heck, next thing you know we'll be telling them to r.t.f.m. i would prefer that implementers get more sophisticated about teasing out the user's intent in "ambiguous" cases. of course,