2017-04-18 23:06 GMT+02:00 Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr>: > > Hello, > > There are different flavour of markdown, maybe you should document which >>> one is targetted. Should it be CommonMark? Another variant? Why? >>> >> >> This should be pandoc pipe table. It's because it is similar to aligned >> format. I need add this to documentation (i have it in recent TODO) >> > > I still do not understand "why" this variant vs CommonMark or whatever > other version. >
Because of simply implementation and readability (looks similar to aligned format) and it is comfortable to edit generated table (changing values, aligning columns etc.). > > ISTM that the md format lacks escaping for special md characters [...] I'd >>> say that you need to do escaping more or less similar to html? >>> >> >> There is problem with markown and newlines. Replacing newline by br was >> only solution that I was able to find. >> > > Fine. That does not answer the question about escaping other special md > characters. > Sorry, maybe I`m not understanding, there is problems with characters like pipe in cells, pipe should be escaped. What other special markdown characters? Escaping html code in cells? > > Also, it seems that you use distinct vertical bar characters in the >>> format? Or is this a trick of my terminal?? It seems that your patch >>> introduces U+2502 (BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL) instead of the usual pipe >>> in some places. Maybe you copy-pasted things from the unicode linestyle. >>> >> >> Main of the functionality is used from aligned format. I tested returned >> tables in retext and it works. If i have another character than standart >> pipe, it shouldn`t work. >> > > Sure. ISTM that you are currently using U+2502 instead of pipe, hence my > point. > Could you send me example where? > > Why are *_newline variants added for length and formatting? Would it be >>> possible to do without, say by relying on the line count computed by the >>> standard function for instance? >>> >> >> It`s because newlines in markdown, If I need to do it without copy this >> function, i had to add parameter for markdown to this functions. >> > > Then maybe it is an option to consider to avoid duplicating code. > > -- > Fabien. > -- Jelen Starší čeledín datovýho chlíva
