MarkdownJ

[jmutchek-markdown at martiansoftware.com]

> From: Gabriel Mihalache [mailto:mihalache at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 12:06 PM


> I was planning to do a
> port of SmartyPants, so I thought I'd ask you if you started on it, or
> if you did it already?
> It works seems very much similar, although I'm mostly ignorant of Perl.
> Is there any advice you can give me?
> 
> Do you think it would be easier for me to just extend your code from
> MarkdownJ to include the SmartyPants replacements?

Gabriel,

To my knowledge, no work has yet been done on porting SmartyPants to Java
related to the markdownj project.  While I am always open to contributions
to the markdownj codebase, I wonder what reasons John originally had for
keeping these two offerings separate.

Perhaps he'll weigh in on how he might prefer to see the functionality
ported.

Either way, much of the Java is going to be the same... so if you're anxious
to get started, have at!  I look forward to seeing it.

John