Definition list as image caption

[Fletcher Penney]

MultiMarkdown does the same sort of thing in version 3.


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On Jun 25, 2012, at 5:18 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:


> Pandoc has for some time supported the following convention.

> A paragraph containing just an image (and nothing else) gets

> treated as a figure, with the alt text as the caption.

> (If you don't want this, you can defeat it by including

> a nonbreaking space or empty comment in the paragraph alongside

> the image.)

> 

> One advantage of this extension is that it degrades well when

> you process it with standard markdown processors.

> 

> Pandoc also supports a syntax for captioning tables, described here:

> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables

> 

> John

> 

> +++ Lou Quillio [Jun 22 12 17:38 ]:

>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Jakob <jakov at gmx.at> wrote:

>>>  recently though about image captions, then i realized that this could be

>>> achiebed by Markdown Extra's definition list feature:

>>> 

>>> ![alttext](http://exampl.com/img.jpg)

>>> : here goes the *caption*

>>> 

>>> What do you think?

>> 

>> For reference, here's Russ Weakly in 2004:

>> 

>> http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/definition/

>> 

>> LQ

>> 

>> 

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