Hi Fletcher, On 01.04.2017 04:22, Fletcher T. Penney wrote: > Nico, > > Just for the sake of giving you an on-topic reply ;) ....
thank you! > > I understand that you don't want to change HTML, just the Markdown > syntax to basically ignore manually entered hyphens at the end of lines. > > 1. Markdown, per se, is frozen as it has not seen an update in 10+ years > (I'm too lazy to check exact dates right now, but it's close enough.) > So, at best, you could hope to get your proposal accepted by some subset > of Markdown variants. Or create your own. ;) Well, it's never too late ;) a pity though. I'll have people add it to their software if anyone ever complains about my hyphens (I'm usually not the one who converts my Markdown). > > 2. To me, this seems to be a rather idiosyncratic request. I understand > that it is a desirable feature to you, but I suspect the number of > others who desire this feature is quite low (witness that most replies > don't even *understand* your request, much less support it.) I thought the general idea behind Markdown is to mark up text while maintaining readability (of the untransformed source). And I doubt the reaction on this list counts as representative. > > 3. I think your best bet is to implement it yourself in your own build > of Markdown (or whatever variant you prefer.) That could be done rather > quickly, as compared to the time it would take to garner enough support > to implement it more broadly. Alternatively, you could quickly create a > pre-processing script that searches for your regexp and strips out any > matches before passing your source to your markdown processor. Something > like the following (not tested, just to prompt actual ideas): > > cat text.md | perl -pe 's/\-\n([^\n])/$1/g' | Markdown.pl > > output.html > > 4. As to your specific syntax suggestion, this would not work well in > MultiMarkdown, as the `\\\n` syntax is already used to indicate > linebreaks, in addition to the ` \n` (space-space-newline) to improve > visibility. > > <http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-5/escaped-newlines.html> Every language where I've seen escaped new-line chars so far, used it to ignore the line break. We should fix MultiMarkdown then ;) just kidding > Hope some of that helps... Yep, especially the "is frozen" part (on Daring Fireball it still says this ML is the place to discuss "formatting syntax"). Nico > > > Fletcher > > > On 3/31/17 12:57 PM, Nico Huber wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> don't know if this has been discussed before, or if I just overlooked >> how to do it: I'm missing support for hyphenation in Markdown files. >> Looking at always ragged HTML pages is already hard enough, so I can't >> bear anything but halfway justified text in my editor and manually hy- >> phenate words. >> >> I would do it as follows: 1. If a hyphen followed by a single new-line >> character is encountered "-\n[^\n]", drop the hyphen and any following >> whitespace. 2. In case you have to break a word that includes a hyphen, >> you would escape the new-line character "-\\\n". Like this: Escape new-\ >> line character to preserve the hyphen. This way, the hyphen wouldn't >> occur in front of the new-line char and 1. doesn't apply. Although, any >> whitespace following the new-line char would also have to be dropped in >> this case. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Regards, >> Nico _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
