Extending markdown?

[Fletcher T. Penney]

On Jul 23, 2005, at 7:34 AM, MDK wrote:


> 2.  Linking to headers. It would be cool to be able to easily link to

> headers in the created document. So that we don't have to use the...

>

>     <h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3>

>

> ...thing. If I have a

>

>     ## Philosophy ##

>

> in my document, writing a

>

>     [click here][Philosophy]

>

> should create a link to the Philosophy header.

> I happen to use markdown to write longer documents like README  

> files or

> other software documentation. Markdown is great here, as these  

> files are

> often published on the web and inside the source tarballs as well.

> Having the header-linking functionality would improve the index- 

> buliding

> capabilities (I think it's kind of out-of-style to use html markup in

> the README)



#1 (images) has gotten a lot of discussion, but I wanted to point out  
that I did implement a version of this idea in MultiMarkdown, based  
on simply re-interpreting the [id][] link format...  May or may not  
be a good idea, but I welcome feedback.

I agree that being able to internally reference other parts of a  
Markdown document is a good idea.

http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/MultiMarkdown

Thanks!

Fletcher

-- 
Fletcher T. Penney
fletcher at alumni.duke.edu

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
     - Renata Alder


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3949 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/attachments/20050727/69dd8ff8/smime.bin