The Plan.

[Craig Morgan]

Comment inline ...

John Gruber wrote:

> 1.  1.0b4 will be a bug-fix release. I'm just concentrating on
>     fixing bugs in 1.0b3. Should be coming later today.
> 
> 2.  Subsequent 1.0 betas will implement a few deeper changes:
> 
>     +   New, simpler, "no-colons necessary" rule for code blocks.
>     +   Markdown should be smarter about matching nested inline
>         HTML blocks.
>     +   Markdown should ignore HTML comments. (Right now, it
>         wraps `<p>` tags around them.
>     +   Markdown will allow `+` and `-` to be used as unordered
>         list markers, synonymously with `*`.
> 
> 3.  1.0 will ship with the above feature set.
> 
> 4.  Features planned for 1.1.:
> 
>     +   Syntax for specifying class and id attributes
>     +   Definition lists
>     +   Ordered lists that start at numbers other than 1.
>     +   Ordered lists that use letters instead of numbers.

Can't this be taken care of with CSS ie. {list-style-type: lower-alpha;} 
rather than adding to the special cases list.

>     +   Special mode to limit Markdown to span level processing. For
>         example, in MT, this would manifest as a template tag attribute
>         that would allow for span level Markdown, but no block-level
>         Markdown. This would be useful for, e.g., the <MTEntryTitle>
>         tag, so that you could use a title like this:
>     
>             This title contains *Markdown*
>         
>         The span-level mode would process the asterisks, but wouldn't
>         add a `<p>` wrapper.
> 
> 
> I offer no timeline for anything other than 1.0b4.  :^)
> 
> -J.G.
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Craig

Craig Morgan