Thanks Eric - I did have a peek at Phoedown (as I did recall that announcement) but as my use case is for a generic library for testing (that I could potentially share with the wider community), I wasn’t convince that needing a separate dependency would fly (for an own standalone project it did seem like a good bet and very comprehensive).
> On 24 Mar 2020, at 17:56, Eric Gade <eric.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > I was looking into this the other day (along with the potential native > implementation) and remembered this was posted in Discord: > https://github.com/PierceNg/Phoedown <https://github.com/PierceNg/Phoedown> > > It uses an existing C based markdown parsing library via FFI. > > Evidently, it is quite difficult to make a Markdown parser because there can > be a lot of ambiguity. Would be cool to have a full Smalltalk implementation > though. > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:52 PM Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > Hi guys - do we have a simple markdown parser that is reasonably up to date? > I did a quick GitHub scan and a few popped out, but I wasn’t convinced I had > found one the “everyone” uses (albeit, everyone might be a small sample). > > Ideally I don’t want to get sucked into writing another one (a project for a > future time). > > Tim > > > -- > Eric
