Syntax for extensions

[Florian Lindner]

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"WaylanLimberg" <waylan at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Which implementation of markdown are you using (perl, php,

> python,ruby...)? The answer would depend to a large extent upon that.



>  For example, Python-Markdown has a fairly simple extension api [1]

> for just that sort of thing, but to my knowledge, no other

> implementationshares anything that closely resembles it.


Thanks for that link. Actually I'm using python-markdown.
However my problem is not about the implementation but how to design
the syntax of the extension in order not to collide with markdown
syntax.

Thanks,

Florian

>  [1]:

>  http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Writing_Extensions



>  On Feb 13, 2008 2:25 PM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de> wrote:

>>   Hello,

>>   I need to to slightly extend the markdown syntax. (place an image

>> (img tag) in text which URL has not yet been determined). Therefore

>> I want to define something like $[Alt text](img.jpg) which would be

>> replaced by my pre-processor with ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) and

>> then sent to markdown.



>>   Is there any special syntax that should be used for such 3rd party

>> extensions? How would you do it?



>>   Thanks,



>>   Florian



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