Syntax Questions

[John MacFarlane]

You can change [peg-markdown] to behave the way you want (without
problems in code blocks) just by adding one line:

--- a/markdown_parser.leg
+++ b/markdown_parser.leg
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ Entity =    ( HexEntity | DecEntity | CharEntity )
             { $$ = mk_str(yytext); $$->key = HTML; }
 
 Endline =   TerminalEndline | NormalEndline
+            { $$ = mk_element(LINEBREAK); }
 

[peg-markdown]: http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/tree/master

John

+++ Jurgens du Toit [Jul 22 08 12:43 ]:

>    Mmm, yes. Didn't think about that. Another solution would perhaps be to

>    split the string into an array by using the start and end tags of block

>    elements, and then only nl2br specific elements of this array, and then

>    put the string back together again.

> 

>    J

> 

>    On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Michel Fortin

>    <[1]michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> 

>      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

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