Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Linebreaks within paragraph handling (GitHub Flavored Markdown)

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

Brian,

Glad you have found Python-Markdown useful.  Of course, we try to
support Markdown as close as possible, so we won't be implementing
your request as a built in feature. In fact, for those of us who
prefer command line text editors (vim or emacs) Markdown's default
behavior with line breaks makes much more sense. However, in a web
form, I can see the value in making all line breaks hard.

This would be a super simple extension. I'm not aware that one already
exists, but you could easily replace the current line break inline
pattern with your own. In fact, you'd really only need to write the
appropriate regex and pass it in using our extension API. See the docs
for all the details [1].  Given the simplicity of something like this,
my tutorials [2] [3] might be more helpful. If you need any help, feel
free to ask.

And when you have a working extension, please post a link to it on our
wiki [4] so others may use it.

[1]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Writing_Extensions
[2]: http://achinghead.com/archive/86/python-markdown-adding-insert-delete/
[3]: http://achinghead.com/archive/87/python-markdown-changing-bold-italics/
[4]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Available_Extensions

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Brian Neal <bg...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> First of all, thanks for your great work on this package. It is really useful.
>
> My users are easily confused and get tripped up by the way Markdown
> does not insert a <br /> tag when it encounters a newline in a
> paragraph-like construct. So I'm searching for a way to implement this
> behavior, just like StackOverflow and GitHub Flavored Markdown do:
> http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/
>
> Has this been done by anyone before? If not, what is the best way to
> do this, as an extension? Any pointers on how to best do that? As a
> preprocessor or tree extension?
>
> Or is there already a Python implementation of GitHub flavored Markdown?
>
> Thanks,
> BN
>
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