Re: Moving on. A basic para

On 26 November 2012 19:29, Ryan Freebern <rfreebern@unionstmedia.com> wrote:
> Markdown test runner, initial pass:
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19958133/markdown/test-output.html
> Sorry about the ugly giant table.
>
> Right now I've got 9 markdown parsers running on the VM, because I've only
> had a few hours to spend on this. As time goes on I'll keep adding more. The
> most obvious early takeaway is that the smaller, less-used implementations
> have many small differences in how they parse and output. lunamark, for
> instance, doesn't recognize EOF as a paragraph terminator, apparently.
> markdown.bash outputs lots of extra newlines. Many parsers don't trim
> leading or trailing spaces.


Thanks Ryan, very useful.

Your comments on whitespace make it important that we cover it properly.

regards



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> Ryan
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> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 21 November 2012 21:07, David J. Weller-Fahy
>> <dave-lists-public-markdown@weller-fahy.com> wrote:
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>> > Would BabelMark 2 [1] be useful here?  As that is an implementation
>> > which is already available for checking the behavior of various
>> > implementations.  I hadn't seen it mentioned yet.
>> >
>> > [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/
>> >
>> > --
>> > dave [ please don't CC me ]
>>
>> Great find Dave, many thanks. Added to the wiki.
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>> regards
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>> --
>> Dave Pawson
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