[Python-modules-team] Bug#567378: Bug#567378: Using alternatives for /usr/bin/markdown?

[Axel Beckert]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 05:55:43PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 19-Feb-2010, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:18:28AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > One possible reason is that there appears to be no specification
> > > on the parsing of Markdown format, other than ???what John
> > > Gruber's /usr/bin/markdown does???.
> > 
> > Sure there is:
> > 
> > http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
> 
> Sorry, I didn't mean ???a set of examples and prose explanation???. I
> means a specification of the language, i.e. a formal grammar.

I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding. 

> From what I gather, Markdown lacks one
> <URL:http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/01/markdown-headings-grief-and-unknown.html>.

Thanks for that link.

Interestingly in the single comment to that blog-post, there is a hint
to a PEG grammar for markdown and the parser based on it:

http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/blob/master/markdown_parser.leg

Could that help? It's not by Gruber, but IMHO it's a starting point.

		Regards, Axel
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