Re: mkhtml.py: writing HTML documents in Markdown
* Kragen Javier Sitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-08 18:00]: On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:42:53 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Kragen Javier Sitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-07 09:40]: Stylesheeting comes naturally. I just put a `style` element at the top with a few lines inside of it to format nicely. Note that Markdown ends up wrapping `link` and `style` in `p` tags, arguably erroneously. What, is Markdown supposed to know that those elements are neither block-level nor span-level markup? In fact it is – or to phrase the statement more appropriately, it is supposed to know that wrapping such elements in `p` tags is not a useful thing to do. It already avoids wrapping block-level tags in paragraphs; there is no reason not to extend that list to also contain all the elements that may appear in the head of an HTML document, even though they are nominally invalid in the body. Of course, neither tag has any business being in the HTML body; they should both be in the head. Since you’re loading BeautifulSoup anyway, you probably want to include that as fix-up step in your postprocessing. Yeah, I've been planning to do that, but didn't get around to doing it before sending it out. (I also have this theory that I'll be a happier person if I don't spend too much time on inventing private markup languages, and that makes me perhaps unreasonably reluctant to add extra postprocessing steps, even when the alternative is ill-formed HTML.) I agree with that theory, which is why I use Markdown despite the minor (and a few less minor) things I dislike about it. Attaching some light postprocessing to Markdown to add support for small missing bits seems like a much better approach to achieve both satisfaction and an absence of unhappiness. I try to write code only when I can’t help it… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: mkhtml.py: writing HTML documents in Markdown
[Note to markdown-discuss readers: for context see http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2008-June/000488.html] * Kragen Javier Sitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-07 09:40]: Stylesheeting comes naturally. I just put a `style` element at the top with a few lines inside of it to format nicely. Note that Markdown ends up wrapping `link` and `style` in `p` tags, arguably erroneously. Weirdly, it looks like Python-Markdown should avoid that mistake: * http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=%3Cstyle%3Efoo+%7B%7D%3C%2Fstyle%3E * http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=%3Clink+%2F%3E But at the top of http://canonical.org/~kragen/crywrap.html the problem shows up anyway. Of course, neither tag has any business being in the HTML body; they should both be in the head. Since you’re loading BeautifulSoup anyway, you probably want to include that as fix-up step in your postprocessing. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Re: mkhtml.py: writing HTML documents in Markdown
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Note to markdown-discuss readers: for context see http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2008-June/000488.html] * Kragen Javier Sitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-07 09:40]: Stylesheeting comes naturally. I just put a `style` element at the top with a few lines inside of it to format nicely. Note that Markdown ends up wrapping `link` and `style` in `p` tags, arguably erroneously. Weirdly, it looks like Python-Markdown should avoid that mistake: Well, first of all, he's using an old version of Python-Markdown. The first line of his `render` function gives it away (due to the change in 1.7 to all-unicode -- you generally don't pass unicode text to str()) body = str(markdown.Markdown(text)) Just use the wrapper (all lowercase in any version): body = markdown.markdown(text) IIRC, there was a bugfix in 1.7 that also addressed the raw html wrapped in p tags thing. So, upgrade to 1.7 and that problem should go away. -- Waylan Limberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
