On 4 Mar 2008 10:15:10 -0800, david parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I'm not surprised when
>
> 1986. What a great season.
>
> generates a list item, because the existing spec tells me that
>
> ``[...]a _number-period-space_ sequence at the beginning of a line[...]''
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> will trigger an ordered list.
>
I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before, but the period
should be escapable and in fact, it is. That, I believe is the answer
to this problem of a line that begins with a number-period-space
sequence.
1986\. What a great season.
becomes:
<p>1986. What a great season.</p>
I just checked markdown.pl, php & python and it works correctly in all three.
>
>
> But what's the intent of ***hello*, sailor** ?
>
> Should it produce
> 1. <strong><em>hello</em>, sailor</strong>
> 2. <strong>*hello*, sailor</strong>
> 3. *<strong>hello*, sailor</strong>
> 4. ***hello<em>, sailor<strong>
> 5. ***hello*, sailor**
> 6. <em><strong>hello</strong></em><strong>, sailor</strong>
> 7. <em><strong>hello</em>, sailor</strong> (which makes baby XML cry) ?
>
> How about **Hello, sailor ?
>
> Is it <strong>Hello, sailor, **Hello, sailor, or <em></em>Hello, sailor?
>
> And how about _________cut here_________ ?
>
>
> Formal specifications are written to avoid surprises in the
> implementations; As a user (and there's no way I'd have written an
> implementation if I wasn't a user) of the language I'd like to avoid
> surprises when I go between the markdown documents on my website,
> posts on my weblog, or posts on someone else's wiki and/or weblog.
>
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