Syntax Questions

Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com
Tue Jul 22 06:35:41 EDT 2008


Le 2008-07-22 à 2:47, Jurgens du Toit a écrit :


> At the end of the day I probably will maintain my own copy, with some

> changes, of Markdown. I also don't want to break the syntax. One of my

> previous mails I mentioned a way that makes the Markdown more

> useable (by

> being able to usefully use nl2br on the Markdown'ed string) without

> breaking

> the syntax or HTML and plain text presentation.


Have you considered what will happen to code blocks with `nl2br`?
Won't this:

<pre><code>function a() {
return 1;
}</code></pre>

be turned into this:

<pre><code>function a() {<br />
return 1;<br />
}</code></pre>

effectively doubling the newlines?


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




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