On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 05:55:43PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > On 19-Feb-2010, Axel Beckert wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:18:28AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > One possible reason is that there appears to be no specification > > > on the parsing of Markdown format, other than ???what John > > > Gruber's /usr/bin/markdown does???. > > > > Sure there is: > > > > http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax > > Sorry, I didn't mean ???a set of examples and prose explanation???. I > means a specification of the language, i.e. a formal grammar.
I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding. > From what I gather, Markdown lacks one > <URL:http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/01/markdown-headings-grief-and-unknown.html>. Thanks for that link. Interestingly in the single comment to that blog-post, there is a hint to a PEG grammar for markdown and the parser based on it: http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/blob/master/markdown_parser.leg Could that help? It's not by Gruber, but IMHO it's a starting point. Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - a...@deuxchevaux.org, a...@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100221124918.gv1...@sym.noone.org
