On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:37:00AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > As shown before in the other thread, markdown does not work with > the current long description : it needs pre-processing to add some > blank lines before each list. I've the impression that you didn't read my post, I might be wrong though. Anyhow, what I said there is that *each single paragraph* can be considered Markdown (and not the whole long description), using single-dot lines as paragraph separators. With that convention, you can use Markdown out of the box (on each paragraph) as long as each list is on a single paragraph (which sounds like a reasonable requirement to pose). Anticipating a potential objection: nested lists do work without needing "blank" lines to separate nesting levels; I've just tried that out. > If we add some preprocessor, I think we will hit the reason why, for > example, markdown requires this additional blank line. This means that > we will not support all what markdown support. It is not a problem but > it means that markdown specifications can not be used "as it". Note that the only pre-processor needed seems to be the one which separate paragraphs using the single dot we already use. Such pre-processor is most likely already implemented by all tools processing long descriptions. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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