RE: header syntax.

In a way I think this is important in order to get wide-adoption. 

 

Getting down the original spec is good start, then we can start revising &
extending it for items such as html entities conversion, triple backticks
etc (think HTML 5 vs HTML 4).

 

Thanks,

 

Michael Cullum

 

From: Max Albrecht [mailto:1@178.is] 
Sent: 22 November 2012 19:44
To: public-markdown@w3.org
Subject: Re: header syntax.

 

 

On 22 Nov 2012, at 19:20, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:





Beyond that, I feel it would be nice if we could avoid 'invalidating'
existing MD content that adheres to the syntax rules specified in that
original MD spec. 

 

I strongly agree. 

Disclaimer: I am completely new to this process, but I *think* I understood
the 'scope' of the 'baseline' as Dave explained.

But: What good is (even a 'baseline') a spec if it breaks the output of
existing content?

 

In case of the # Title #####:

What practical arguments speak against not including it?

I also don't think it adds to much complexity to any implementation to just
ignore this charactes after any valid title.

 

Wouldn't something along the lines of "An "ATX-Style"* Title can be followed
by any number of #-characters" be sufficent?

 

* or however the ATX style Title will be called.

 

 Max