Well, just for completeness, I'll report that I have decided to use my
own simple-minded version rather than mergMarkdownToXHTML.
I had added one tiny convenience feature (a trailing "*" in a URL would
be converted to make the link open in a new browser tab/window - by
changing it to TARGET="_blank" ) to make it easier for my 'authors' to
get it right. Turns out this isn't *just* a convenience - regular
Markdown has *no way* to specify a link that opens in a new tab. In
fact, Markdown doesn't allow spaces in the URI, so you can't even type
it out longhand. Since many, or even most, of the links in articles on
my site will want to open in new tabs, it's out of the question to do
without that - so mergMarkdownToXHTML isn't going to work.
So - I'm back to my own converter .... which will undoubtedly get a few
more features added in the next week or so, so I'll post the final
version (or a link to it) when I think I'm done.
-- Alex.
On 05/11/2017 20:40, Kay C Lan via use-livecode wrote:
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
(*) I read about Markdown; it was interesting; I learned something - no
hours were truly "wasted"
Nor was I aware that mergMardownToXHMTL existed, so thank you for
raising this thread so James could enlighten us. Now all I need is
someone to tell me there is similar function that converts HTML (or
more specifically the LC subset of HTML used by Fields) to Markdown
otherwise I too will be reading more about Markdown (thanks for the
link) and learning something new.
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