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I'm currently attempting to write a spec for parsing Markdown Extra, and since one goal is to minimize the differences in output between implementations, I've made a tool allowing me to compare who does what for any given input. I hope this can also facilitate future discussions about the syntax. So here's Babelmark, a testbed for various Markdown implementations were you

Hello all, I've began writing the parsing section of the spec, and I though I'd let you know about where I'm heading with all this. Basically, parsing is defined as three consecutive passes: parsing document elements, parsing block elements and parsing span elements. Each pass is going to contain a set of rules the parser should attempt to match while parsing the input. Rules

I'd like to announce a beta release of the Fenced-Code-Blocks Extension for Python-Markdown. <http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Available_Extensions> The latest code for Python-Markdown and packaged extensions are now available on Gitorious. <http://gitorious.org/projects/python-markdown> The same syntax is used as the just released PHP Markdown Extra 1.2. I

Hello List, I have recently started using Michel Fortin's PHP "Markdown Extra" implementation to programmatically transform my markdown text files into HTML. Firstly I'd like to say markdown is very cool -- thanks to everyone involved :) I'd also like to suggest two additions to markdown: 1) I very often use /this/ markdown to indicate emphasis since I find it much

Time for an update to PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra. <http://michelf.com/project/php-markdown/> This new version of PHP Markdown Extra adds support for "fenced" code blocks (which I was previously calling "flat"). Fenced code blocks overcome many limitations of Markdown's indented code blocks: they can can be put immediately following a list item, can

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

> Anyway, a spec for Markdown Extra would contain a spec for Markdown as > well, wouldn't it? I think the whole enterprise would be a lot more valuable, if we produce a combined spec, which would be self-contained, and call it Markdown 2.0. I don't think we necessarily need a formal grammar. What we need is to create a document, starting with "Markdown Syntax" perhaps,

This is basically a pre-announcement. I'll make the announcement more official by posting it on my blog when it goes out of beta. There's a new branch to PHP Markdown. It contains the two exact same parsers found in PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra, but without all the cruft. In other words: is packaged to be used as a library, and only as a library. The two parsers classes are in the

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;

This is something that I've been asked for many times. So today I'm announcing that all future versions of PHP Markdown and PHP SmartyPants will be encapsulated in a parser class. This has two major benefits: 1. It should make extensions to the syntax easier to create and maintain as it is now possible to now extend the parser by replacing (overriding) only the relevant

Hello, I've published a Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read. Yes, that's Markdown. (Textile is supported too ;-) You can find two samples online in Markdown: o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/rest.text o

The following benchmarks have been obtained using the TextMate manual as the input source: <http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/source.tbz> Using PHP Markdown, parsing the 24 files separately (with the reference file appended to each of them), I get this (on an iBook G4 1.2 Ghz): Total Avg. Min. Q1. Med. Q3. Max. Parse Time (ms):

This is a new release for PHP Markdown, following Markdown.pl 1.0.2b7 from a few weeks ago. It fix the same bugs, and some more; it also introduce more radical backend changes. It can be downloaded here: <http://www.michelf.com/docs/projets/php-markdown-1.0.2b7.zip> and you can test it on the PHP Markdown Dingus: <http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/dingus/> This

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 is an Extra-only release for fixing an embarrassing bug with fenced code blocks. <http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/> Extra 1.2.1 (27 May 2008): * Fixed a problem where Markdown headers and horizontal rules were transformed into their HTML equivalent inside fenced code blocks. In other words, this: ~~~ # hello - - - ~~~ would generate a header and

I just realised I hadn't updated the version of PHP Markdown and Extra on the dingus as I pretended I did in my two announcements. It is now fixed: PHP Markdown 1.0.2b7 and PHP Markdown Extra 1.1b1 can now be tested on the dingus. <http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/dingus/> Sorry for any inconvenience. Michel Fortin michel.fortin@michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/

Here's another update to PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra featuring some bug fixes. See the download link on the project's page: <http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/> This update also features a new emphasis parser which process regular and strong emphasis in one pass instead of two and four for previous versions of PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra. The new parser

Question: what should be the output for this: > for me the point of having my blog as a static site is mainly easy deployment<br> > I don't have to worry about even configuring PHP<br> > I just put html on a web server and boom! instant win > > <footer>? [Igor Wiedler wins](https://igor.io)</footer> The real question is how to treat

Along with the new release of PHP Markdown 1.0.2b7 comes this new version of PHP Markdown Extra. It contains every improvements of PHP Markdown 1.0.2b7 plus some new fixes and two new features. You can download it here: <http://www.michelf.com/docs/projets/php-markdown-extra-1.1b1.zip> and you can test it on the PHP Markdown Dingus (select PHP Markdown Extra):

I'm announcing today a new testsuite application for Markdown called MDTest. I've been using it as a replacement for John's Markdown Test for some time now I think it's ready for release. First, I want to say Markdown Test has been very useful in developing PHP Markdown. The testsuite covers many cases, however I still found the need to add other tests for PHP Markdown, to