markdown's reference links with the implicit name syntax - improvement suggestion?!?

[Cook, Malcolm]

yuri - informative and splendid - thanks very much for the education - i've been using Markdown.pl and some apache directives to filter *.md files through it.  I'll try the python version.  Perhaps footnotes will be sufficient for my purposes....

--malcolm
 


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> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:01 PM

> To: Discussion related to Markdown.

> Subject: Re: markdown's reference links with the implicit 

> name syntax - improvement suggestion?!?

> 

> > Is there some way of extending markdown in this direction.

> 

> It really depends on what you mean by "markdown".

> 

> Historically, proposals for extending the reference 

> implementations do not tend to go very far. Note that the 

> last official release of Markdown.pl was in 2004... With 

> alternative implementations, your chances are little bitter. 

> Michel occasionally incorporates really promising suggestions 

> into PHP Markdown Extra. (I am guessing it would need to be a 

> lot more compelling.) We, of Python Markdown, tend to remind 

> people who ask for new features that we offer an extension 

> framework [1] that would allow you to change Python Markdown 

> to do things like you suggest in a few dozen lines of code.

> 

> - yuri

> 

> [1]: 

> http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Writing_Extensions

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