md2html.awk and a question

[david parsons]

In article <a81fe9be0907161105s3cd799a8hf5db46207ad48576 at mail.gmail.com>,
yy  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

>Hello,

>

>I have just subscribed to this list. I will introduce myself: For some

>time, I have kept a markdown implementation in awk for personal use,

>different from other implementations. Now, I'm in the process of

>rewriting it and I'm trying to do it as compatible as possible.

>

>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


    I think the problem here is that the reference implementation
    has trouble parsing unusual lists (I can get it to generate
    improper html by putting '>'s inside of a list:

	- > hi
	  >
	- > there


    ...) and you might be better off just having your implementation
    do list processing in the way you see best.


    -david parsons