Minor regexp oversight for setext headings
John Gruber
gruber at fedora.net
Mon Oct 9 17:48:40 EDT 2006
Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 10/9/06 at
12:47 AM:
> As much as I agree with you, I tend to believe it'll break
>backward compatibility for a couple of people. I've seen this
>a couple of times:
> Paragraph...
> Header
> ======
> Paragraph...
> although I don't remember exactly where. So I think this
>should be kept working.
OK. I don't feel strongly about it, I suppose.
But what about this:
#this#
that
Right now that gets turned into
<h1>this</h1>
<p>that</p>
and I think that's just plain wrong. The only reason this works is
by accident; so I plan to require a blank line here.
> About this:
> this
> hello
> =====
> that
> I wouldn't encourage anyone to write a two-line heading in
> most circumstances, but given ambiguous input, it does seem
> the most logical thing to do is to not separate contiguous
> text into parts. So I'd say it's one header and one paragraph:
> <h1>this
> hello<h1>
> <p>that</p>
After reading other comments in this thread, I'm inclined to say
that Setext-style headers should not have embedded newlines. In
which case the above would translate to:
<p>this
hello
=====
that</p>
I think.
-J.G.
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