Jonathan, You might also have a look at pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc. It already supports tables, definition lists, footnotes, superscripts, subscripts, strikeout, automatic tables of contents, smart punctuation, etc. See also:
- PHP Markdown Extra: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/ - Maruku: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/ - MultiMarkdown: http://fletcherpenney.net/MultiMarkdown - Asciidoc: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ Since you write technical things, you might also appreciate that pandoc allows you to include TeX math, for example: $\pi \approx 22/7 = 3.142857$, $\gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - v^2/c^2}}$. In pandoc 0.45, which will be released later today, you'll be able to choose from four different methods for rendering TeX math in HTML: - approximation using unicode - ASCIIMathML (uses MathML, works only with better browsers) - mimeTeX (converts equations to images) - gladTeX (converts equations to images) Pandoc also supports output in formats other than HTML -- LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, reStructuredText, groff man, S5, and DocBook XML -- and conversion TO markdown from HTML, LaTeX, and reStructuredText. Best, John +++ Jonathan Coxhead [Dec 08 07 04:31 ]: > I've just spent a happy couple of days writing a text file for formatting with > Markdown. The results are phenomenal! It's easy to write, and attractive to > read. I'll try to send a Christmas present to the writer :-) > > But when I looked at the perl source, I also found that it was small and > well-structured. Of course, I couldn't resist adding a few things that > appealled > to me. I'll share them here in case anyone has comments ... > _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
