Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2006-12-28 à 16:00, John Gruber a écrit :


> The way Michel Fortin has handled this with PHP Markdown is ideal.


But please everyone take note that it can also be pretty cumbersome  
at times. I don't want to dissuade anyone from keeping separate  
implementations Markdown and added features -- that's certainly a  
good idea, and a good learning experience too -- but implementers  
must realize that the implementation of some features is really hard  
to to achieve without writing two completely separate parsers. For  
instance, PHP Markdown Extra's special handling of underscore- 
emphasis completely override the corresponding parser function of PHP  
Markdown.

In fact, one of the reasons why custom attributes aren't already  
supported in PHP Markdown Extra 1.1 is because it's hard to figure  
out a way to do it without changing every regular expression of PHP  
Markdown and creating two completely different code bases to  
maintain. My plan is to do this by adding the necessary hooks in PHP  
Markdown's regular expressions, but the point is that it'd be much  
simpler to do if the added Extra features were merged into the  
regular PHP Markdown parser.


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://www.michelf.com/