yuri - informative and splendid - thanks very much for the education - i've been using Markdown.pl and some apache directives to filter *.md files through it. I'll try the python version. Perhaps footnotes will be sufficient for my purposes....
--malcolm > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Yuri Takhteyev > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:01 PM > To: Discussion related to Markdown. > Subject: Re: markdown's reference links with the implicit > name syntax - improvement suggestion?!? > > > Is there some way of extending markdown in this direction. > > It really depends on what you mean by "markdown". > > Historically, proposals for extending the reference > implementations do not tend to go very far. Note that the > last official release of Markdown.pl was in 2004... With > alternative implementations, your chances are little bitter. > Michel occasionally incorporates really promising suggestions > into PHP Markdown Extra. (I am guessing it would need to be a > lot more compelling.) We, of Python Markdown, tend to remind > people who ask for new features that we offer an extension > framework [1] that would allow you to change Python Markdown > to do things like you suggest in a few dozen lines of code. > > - yuri > > [1]: > http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Writing_Extensions > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
