Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

[Jan Erik Moström]

Reply to A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> 06-12-30 16:30:


>The problem is that there is effectively no spec. There is a

>format documentation, but there are many cases it does not

>specify precisely (or at all). In that case, only the behaviour

>of Markdown.pl can be of guidance; but it is not clear which

>behaviours are correct, which are incidental, and which are bugs;

>precisely because no thorough spec exists.


I agree about the lack of a formal definition (this was 
basically the reason I asked yesterday about formatters doing 
"real parsing") but in my opinion this is not the main problem, 
the main problem is that there are different supersets of markdown.

                 jem