Re: Markdown file extension

2006-10-09 Thread Lou Quillio
John Gruber wrote: I don't like it at all, and certainly won't use or endorse it. Amen. How does a cryptic or tech-schmancy extension square with the Markdown ethic? It don't. But if ya absolutely hadda have one sometimes, what about, uhh, `filename.markdown`? Too confusing? LQ

Re: Know ye of such a beast ?

2006-11-23 Thread Lou Quillio
Joe Chellman wrote: On Nov 22, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Mark Smith wrote: php-driven, markdown-aware, open source wiki/cms that has some degree of version control, a flexible system for privs/access control, is installable (or buildable) on OS X and has an easy installer for windows ? Drupal

Re: Footnote support in Markdown

2007-01-24 Thread Lou Quillio
Jonathan Deber wrote: Has anyone considered moving the list from mailman to Google Groups? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.markdown.general/2378 LQ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net

Bug: Code block after list

2007-08-03 Thread Lou Quillio
Maybe this has been reported before, but I can't find it in the archives. A code block immediately following an ordered or unordered list breaks both the list and the code block. Badly. Tab or spaces for the block don't matter, legal indentation variants of the list don't matter. Tried a bunch

Re: Bug: Code block after list

2007-08-03 Thread Lou Quillio
Jacob Rus wrote: Unfortunately there has been stiff (not particularly logical IMO) resistance to formalizing markdown on this mailing list. I'm not religious about that, but this one did surprise me because I figured code blocks were tokenized early, since they only get a few entity transforms.

Re: Bug: Code block after list

2007-08-04 Thread Lou Quillio
Michel Fortin wrote: Yeah. That's pretty much exactly what I proposed last year: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2006-October/000349.html Ahh, forgot that. +1, then. Also, did anyone notice the syntax John used in this email to denote code examples?

Re: seemingly no good way to end bulleted list and start code block

2007-10-06 Thread Lou Quillio
Matt Kraai wrote: If the first code block is indented with 8 spaces, or 2 tabs, it will be treated as a nested code block inside the second list item, but there seems to be no way to make it be seen as a code block that immediately follows the list. A known shortcoming.

Re: seemingly no good way to end bulleted list and start code block

2007-10-06 Thread Lou Quillio
Michel Fortin wrote: Note that creating a second paragraph in the list item is correct behaviour, not a bug. And I should've been clearer that it's not a bug, and should've linked directly to the workaround. Apologies. So I'm seriously thinking about adding a second (unindented) code block

Re: Nested lists and blank lines

2007-10-12 Thread Lou Quillio
David Reimer wrote: When I use nested lists -- it doesn't matter whether ol or ul, there is always a blank line forced after the second level list is complete before returning to level one. Examples: It's a CSS issue, not a markup issue. If you're using browser defaults, you're most likely

Re: Feature Request External label resolution

2008-04-19 Thread Lou Quillio
Suppose that markdown was clever enough to reference an external file (in .markdownrc of course) for the resolution of LABEL. NOW when I re-arrange the universe, I only have to change the reference in this one file, NOT in every file that references it. Good idea to tokenize URL paths and

Re: tables with Unicode box drawing characters?

2009-09-10 Thread Lou Quillio
However, I am still very fond of David Wheeler's proposal[1] for Markdown tables.  Are there any existing implementations of [1] at present?  If not, I will try to implement it as a preprocessor (as Waylan Limberg suggested) so that it can be used with any Markdown implementation: If I

Re: Scripting: Invoke Markdown *before* SmartyPants

2009-09-22 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Jerry Krinock je...@ieee.org wrote: So, I changed the order to process text through Markdown first, then SmartyPants.  So far, so good. That's what you want. Also, Smartypants won't reach into pre, code, script blocks, etc. -- provided they exist in the input,

Re: Markdown Support in Drupal6.14?

2009-10-19 Thread Lou Quillio
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:20 PM, AJG Baeumel a...@st-maurices.n-lanark.sch.uk wrote: Why is Marksmarty no longersupported in Drupal 6.14? It's been a while since I've worked with Drupal, but I remember that MarkSmarty was really just a hybrid convenience filter. It's better to apply the

Re: Order of Markdown and SmartyPants filters (was: Re: Markdown Support in Drupal6.14?)

2009-10-22 Thread Lou Quillio
Markdown, then Smartypants Indeed, I just checked my script and this is the order I ended up with. Very sorry. Must have been a late night. Of course Smartypants takes X/HTML input. LQ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list

Re: Markdown development

2010-03-19 Thread Lou Quillio
It's nowhere written that the Markdown user won't have to pre-process or post-process to scratch his particular itch. Michel has already[1] made the extensions and done the fixes that a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers reasonably needs at its core. (Prefer Ruby? kramdown's for

Re: Markdown development

2010-03-22 Thread Lou Quillio
Markdown's dead? Absurd. Obviously. That’s why no one said that. Markdown *development* is dead. (Straw men are easy to clobber.) And cherries are easy to pick. My point is that the canonical ambitions that some have for Markdown aren't shared by it's author (Gruber) and it's adoptive

Re: ol start with a specific number?

2011-04-11 Thread Lou Quillio
-numbering problem but a raft of others. LQ [1]: http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html#inline-attribute-lists [2]: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html#attribute_lists [3]: https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde -- Lou Quillio http://quillio.com/ pub...@quillio.com

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-11 Thread Lou Quillio
have the impression that they're scraped. I think the harvesters are all about low-hanging fruit, and decoding is still more expensive than it's worth. Might change some day, but doesn't seem to have -- yet. LQ -- Lou Quillio http://quillio.com/ pub...@quillio.com +1 518.285.0003 (gVoice

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Wander Nauta i...@wandernauta.nl wrote: I agree, entity-encoded mailto: links work quite well. They may not work forever, though, and some Drew McLellan made a good point here: In some ways, obfuscated addresses are even more valuable to spammers, as the very

Re: Email Obfuscation Techniques

2011-04-12 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Fletcher T. Penney fletc...@fletcherpenney.net wrote: On a related topic ---  does anyone know how to pass an obfuscated email address through XSLT? CDATA wrapper? LQ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list

Re: Consecutive code blocks

2011-04-17 Thread Lou Quillio
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Re: Re: An Observation

2011-05-17 Thread Lou Quillio
and that ship with batteries included? Either I'll never understand the grousing, or folks don't get that any Markdown transformer is *part* of one's toolchain. Maybe a big part, depending on what you're doing, but god invented sed for a reason. LQ [1]: http://www.webmproject.org/ -- Lou Quillio

Re: fried fish, available, for free

2011-06-06 Thread Lou Quillio
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Edwin Stearns edwinstea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:28 PM, bowerb...@aol.com wrote:    http://jaguarps.com/tools/screenshots.html LInk doesn't render! Looks like unattractive [1] auto-complete cruft from Bowerbird's text editor. LQ [1]:

Re: Multiline code block within a list

2011-11-15 Thread Lou Quillio
-- in list items and blockquotes, and without depending on newlines -- since at least 0.8.0. LQ -- Lou Quillio http://quillio.com/ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: where are the worthwhile markdown dingi?

2012-04-09 Thread Lou Quillio
where are the worthwhile markdown dingi?  (dinguses?) i'm interested in any dingus that can take a reasonable amount of text -- let's say anything up to a megabyte -- and return the results in real-time, without a long wait... $ kramdown test.txt index.html; heel Need fancy? Use

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Lou Quillio
, here's Russ Weakly in 2004: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/definition/ LQ -- Lou Quillio http://quillio.com/ ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: Links in DF's Markdown?

2012-08-02 Thread Lou Quillio
*On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: I noticed the markdown used for http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ had this: Discussion List a id=discussion-list / That's 2005-vintage XHTML-ish markup. You wouldn't write it today. No reason the id can't be

Re: pre in lists

2012-08-16 Thread Lou Quillio
get paragraphs within the list items but, arguably, you want them, or eventually will. IIRC, PHP Markdown Extra [2] handles this similarly. HTH LQ [1]: http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/ [2]: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/ -- Lou Quillio http://quillio.com

Re: dean allen is gone

2018-06-18 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:28 PM Lou Quillio wrote: > > Could use some help with the draft WikiPedia article _Dean Cameron Allen_. Someone has successfully created a WikiPedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Allen LQ ___ Markdown-D

Re: dean allen is gone

2018-02-06 Thread Lou Quillio
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:45 PM, bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss wrote: > dean allen slipped the bonds last week. > > allen was one of the pioneers of light-markup, and a friend, and a very clever dude. I've submitted a draft, skeleton WikiPedia article ("Dean

Re: dean allen is gone

2018-02-06 Thread Lou Quillio
on its bones and it has multiple contributors. Thanks. LQ On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Lou Quillio <pub...@quillio.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:45 PM, bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss > <markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> wrote: >> dean allen slipped the bond