Automatic creation of DIVs

[Matthew McVickar]

I like this suggestion, but would prefer (foo) and (end foo). The
"of," I think, is extraneous.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:25:19 -0500,
jmutchek-markdown at martiansoftware.com
<jmutchek-markdown at martiansoftware.com> wrote:
> First off, new mailing list member here. I have been reading the archives
> for some time now, but haven't had a need to post (markdown just works, and
> works well).
> 
> Second, thanks to Pete Bevin for his great work on porting Markdown to Java
> (MarkdownJ).  Pete has asked me to take over maintenance of the port moving
> forward.  I will do my best to live up to the standard Pete has set on the
> project.
> 
> On to the suggestion.
> 
> Marty Lamb has suggested a new feature for MarkdownJ that I really like and
> would love to see in the core syntax.
> 
> Basically, it converts blocks like:
> 
> (sidebar)
> This is my *sidebar text*.
> (end of sidebar)
> 
> To:
> 
> <div class="sidebar">
> <p>This is my <strong>sidebar text</strong>.</p> </div>
> 
> The (sidebar) and (end of sidebar) elements must appear on their own lines.
> 
> Of course, it's up to stylesheets to do anything special with that div.  I
> would also have it perform a simple transformation on the contents of the
> first parentheses, converting it to lowercase and concatenating multiple
> words with an underscore separator, so:
> 
> (Java code)
> (end of Java code)
> 
> becomes:
> 
> <div class="java_code">
> </div>
> 
> I believe that this syntax would fall squarely in the spirit of readable
> text source (something I would expect to see in a plain text email).
> 
> Marty has a tested implementation for MarkdownJ that works great - I would
> be interested to hear the list's opinions.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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