Interesting Issue

[Lou Quillio]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Chris,

To transform a man page into XHTML with Markdown, you'd probably
want to wrap the literal passages in backticks (`) so they're
transformed to inline <code> elements, and let your own CSS take
over from there.

Also see the MD syntax for block-level code elements.  MD transforms
plaintext to XHTML.  You have to know what sort of XHTML you want
but, once you do, MD makes it easy.

LQ


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Lou Quillio
Box 459, Cambridge, NY USA 12816
http://quillio.com/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Christopher Biagini wrote:
> I'm writing a paper for one of my classes, and I quote some manpages
> that make mention of constants with underscores in their names--Markdown
> treats the underscores as the start and end of emphasized text. For
> example, this text:
> 
>    The   contentionscope   attribute   can   have   the   value
>    PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM,  signifying  system scheduling conten-
>    tion scope,  or  PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS,  signifying  process
>    scheduling contention scope.
> 
> Becomes this when run through Markdown:
> 
>        <p>The   contentionscope   attribute   can   have   the   value
>       PTHREAD<em>SCOPE</em>SYSTEM,  signifying  system scheduling conten-
>       tion scope,  or  PTHREAD<em>SCOPE</em>PROCESS,  signifying  process
>       scheduling contention scope.</p>
> 
> Which isn't quite what I had in mind. Is this an unfortunate consequence
> of proper behavior, or a bug?
> 
> --Chris Biagini
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Markdown-discuss mailing list
> Markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFBt+Q+Wb6NuB4EK7oRApbkAJ4pdUTzvLC3Yl7A1GvjI+f7wJcwKgCfcldD
sToI9+5cmbDgun4awhiHHvU=
=H1WH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----