On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 09:33:47 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 06.12.2017 um 05:11 schrieb Walter Bright:
https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax/
Anyone interested in picking up the flag?
(I know this has come up before, and I've been opposed to it,
but I've changed my mind.)
This is great news! While I don't have the time to work on this
directly, I can offer vibe.d's Markdown module* (re-licensing
as necessary):
https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/blob/master/textfilter/vibe/textfilter/markdown.d
Markdown is a strange thing to parse in the classical way due
to its original regex-cascade style of implementation/design,
so it was kind of difficult to find representations that allow
reasonably efficient and comprehensible processing.
* There is also "dmarkdown", which is just a fork of the vibe.d
code
For those interested, I've also written a parser for a
Markdon-like syntax (Pendown). You can find it here :
https://github.com/senselogic/PENDOWN
Yeah I know, everybody is gonna say "why reinvent Markdown, it's
already perfect, it's the best invention since Cherry Coke, etc".
But sorry, obviously it wasn't perfect for my needs. I was REALLY
tired of several flaws and limitations in the Markdown syntax, so
I wrote this tool and quickly converted all my Mardown files to
the Pendown format.
Maybe some people won't like its syntax because it's NOT a
Markdown clone, but I use it all the time for all my personal
notes, and now I would NEVER switch back to Markdown. I use it
even for those notes I eventually need to print on paper actually.
Personally I mostly use the JavaScript version by editing an HTML
document, but the D version could be what you are looking for,
used as a tool or as a library.
As usual, I've made the code as simple as it could be, and it's
licensed under the GPL3, so maybe you should have a look at it
before deciding to use the well-known (but far from perfect)
Markdown syntax.
