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[Fletcher T. Penney]

MultiMarkdown does something similar with images that are in a paragraph by themselves --- wrapping them in a <figure>.


Fletcher

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Fletcher T. Penney
fletcher at fletcherpenney.net 

On Nov 14, 2013, at 3:09 PM, David Chambers <dc at davidchambers.me> wrote:


> Are you suggesting that a paragraph consisting solely of text that looks like a URL should be treated specially based on its file extension? Something along these lines could work, but would probably be quite fragile.

> 

> On 14 November 2013 at 10:06:16 am, Johannes Wärn (warn.johannes at gmail.com) wrote:

> 

>> I will start of with an example of what I would like to be able to write in Markdown. 

>> 

>> --- 

>> 

>> This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this. 

>> 

>> This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some pictures of my cat. 

>> 

>> http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg 

>> 

>> http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg 

>> 

>> http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif 

>> 

>> That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking: 

>> 

>> http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3 

>> 

>> And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly: 

>> 

>> http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4 

>> 

>> --- 

>> 

>> I think it’s clear that the output I am suggesting for this would be something along these lines: 

>> 

>> <p>This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this.</p> 

>> <p>This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some pictures of my cat.</p> 

>> <div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg"/></div> 

>> <div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg"/></div> 

>> <div><img src="http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif"/></div> 

>> <p>That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking:</p> 

>> <audio src="http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3"></audio> 

>> <p>And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly:</p> 

>> <video src="http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4"></video> 

>> 

>> I’d also say that the advantage of the syntax is clear: it’s dead simple. Furthermore it downgrades quite nicely. 

>> 

>> There are of course problems it does not solve and extra complexity it would introduce; however, I thought I’d write this short email to see if anyone would be interested in discussing the idea. 

>> 

>> Thank you for reading, 

>> Johannes Wärn 

>> 

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