Minor regexp oversight for setext headings

Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com
Mon Oct 9 18:53:52 EDT 2006


Le 9 oct. 2006 à 17:48, John Gruber a écrit :


> 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.


I totally agree that the syntax should not allow that. But I have no
idea to how much people it could cause backward compatibility
problems. Hopefully no one, but that's just a guess.



> 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.


That's fine with me.


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




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