discount <markdown in C>

[John MacFarlane]

Nice job!  You've got the speed record by a mile!

I've played with your program a bit, and so far it does well on most of the
edge cases that cause problems for Markdown.pl. But, like Markdown.pl,
it generates invalid XHTML for this case:

***strong** in emph*

John

+++ david parsons [Mar 01 08 11:04 ]:

> I've written an implementation of Markdown in C, for people like me

> who shout BAH! and wave their canes at modern programming languages.

> (I needed a decent markup language for my website and weblog, and

> didn't want to have to install any new programming languages on the

> machine.)

> 

> Discount <http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount> has been in

> production for the past two and a half months, and is moving slowly

> enough so that it actually counts as stable.    It includes a standalone

> markdown interpreter, a library, and a couple of sample programs that

> I use for generating webpages.

> 

> There are some whoppingly nonstandard extensions:

> 

>    1. you can configure the interpreter with 8-character tabstops.

>    2. definition lists, using

> 	 =item=

> 	     text

> 	 =item=

> 	     text

>    3. a small stack of smartypantish character substitutions

>    4. pseudo-protocol extensions

>       - [foo](class:bar)  -- wrap foo in <span class=bar>

>       - [foo](id:bar) -- wrap foo in <a id="bar">

>       - [foo](raw:bar) -- emit bar without any processing

>    5. size extensions for images, via>       ![alt](image =WWWxHHH "title")

>    6. pandoc-style header blocks

>    7. <style> block elements, which are squirreled away by the

>       library and can be retrieved by web-page generators.

> 

> 

> Despite all this, discount still passes MarkdownTest_1.0 when

> I turn extensions off and turn --tidy on.

> 

> 

> 

> -david parsons

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