- From: David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-public-markdown@weller-fahy.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:57:51 -0500
- To: public-markdown@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20121205015751.GA967@weller-fahy.com>
For those unfamiliar, RFC means request for comments and RFT means request for testing. --- So, after a weekend of hard slogging through EBNF grammars, and other arcane languages, along with a last-minute IRC meet with Dave P... we've finally come up with an EBNF grammar which successfully captures most of the requirements for Markdown paragraphs. The one thing it doesn't capture (that I'm aware of) is the requirement that the last paragraph in a document be considered complete if it ends with any of the following. - EOL followed by one or more blank lines (that is, any amount of spaces and tabs followed by an EOL). - EOL followed by the EOF - EOF It was the uncertainty of that combination we were unable to capture, so in this version *all* of the paragraphs (including the last one in the Markdown file) must finish with EOL followed by one or more blank lines. The version we devised is on the Wiki on the Core Profile page [1]. [1]: http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/wiki/EbnfGrammar To try this grammar out, you can either use the online yacker where I've saved the version on the wiki page [2], or download and install it locally to play with it on the command line following the instructions provided [3]. [2]: http://www.w3.org/2005/01/yacker/uploads/MdPARA?lang=perl [3]: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/User/Yacker At this point I'm not sure how to get it to be a complete solution, and am not even sure Markdown is definable in EBNF, so I'll take any comments, critiques, and suggestions I can get. Also tests, please. ;) If this grows bigger I may see if Karl wants to include it in his github repository, but until then I figure the Wiki will suffice. Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ]
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