Re: para definition, syntax and semantic. Summary

On 25 November 2012 22:27, David J. Weller-Fahy
<dave-lists-public-markdown@weller-fahy.com> wrote:
> * Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> [2012-11-25 09:35 -0500]:
>> On 25 November 2012 10:33, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:
>> > Le 23 nov. 2012 à 23:08, Dave Pawson a écrit :
>> >> <br /> is currently being defined as inline syntax.  AFAICT it only
>> >> applies with \s\s\n at the end of a line?
>> >
>> > in JG Spec and in implementations.
>>
>> Should we define this as inline markup? That's what it appears to
>> be...  Though how to specify an output neutral semantic .... Any
>> suggestions?
>
> Hrm, inline is how I imagined it would be defined.  It doesn't change
> the definition of any of the other pieces of the markup by existing
> (AFAICT), and shouldn't cause difficulty in detection (easy to parse).
>
> If you're asking how to define using prose, how about...
>
> "If the last two characters before a line ending are spaces (\s\s), then
> a line-break is substituted for those two spaces."
>
> Line-break could then be defined as meaning whatever will cause
> following text to continue on the next line.  That should be format
> agnostic, as I know those exist in TeX, LaTeX, HTML, XHTML, as well as
> others.
>
> Perhaps something like that?

Works for me.
Hang on to it, see if others comment?
My concern is that it will be confusing if we're working on 6 items at once.

regards DaveP



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