md2html.awk and a question

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2009-07-16 à 14:05, yy a écrit :


> There are many questions I have, I know some test suites and am trying

> to pass those tests. When I don't know how to handle a corner case I

> use to check with Dingus. I would really appreciate if somebody could

> explain me the output of this text:

>

>        this paragraph is outside of list blocks

>

>        * #this is not a h1

>        * ##this is not a h2

>        * ###and this is not a h3

>        * but the next one is

>

>          #an h1!

>          inside a list item, ok, but...

>

>        * ###wtf is this?

>

>        bad, bad, bad...


The algorithm in Markdown.pl resumes to this:

1. The content of a list item which contains a blank line is treated
    as block-level content.

2. The content of a list item preceded by a blank line, when it's not
    the first item of a list, is teated as block level content.

3. The content of a list item followed by a blank line, when it's not
    the last item of a list, is teated as block level content.

4. Otherwise, the content is parsed for sublists and the rest is
    span-level content.



>        - btw, this an h1, not a list item

>        ===================

>

>        - but indenting...

>          ============

>

>        that's better


The algorithm in Markdown.pl resumes to this:

1. Any non-blank line followed by a non-indented line of three or more  
of
    consecutive `=` is treated as a h1 header. Inside a h1 header only
    span-level content is allowed. Oh, and Makrdown.pl searches for  
headers
    before checking for lists, so it won't see a list here.


I'm not claiming any of this makes any sense. Just how Markdown.pl  
(and PHP Markdown) works.


-- 
Michel Fortin
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