Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

[John MacFarlane]

+++ Jacob Rus [Dec 28 06 17:18 ]:

> Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> > A question: am I correct when I guess that all implementations 

> > use regexp to parse the text 

> 

> Yes

> 

> > or is there some implementation 

> > that do "real" parsing?

> 

> No


Yes.  Pandoc <http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc> does "real"
parsing, using Haskell's Parsec library of parser combinators.  I suppose
one might quibble about whether it counts as an "implementation"
of markdown; it comes close to full compatibility, but differs from
standard markdown on a few edge cases (described in the documentation),
and also provides a few syntax extensions.  With some effort, I suppose,
a "full compatibility" mode could be added.

John