[ANN] Babelmark

[Tomas Doran]

On 22 Mar 2008, at 17:09, Michel Fortin wrote:


> I'm currently attempting to write a spec for parsing Markdown  

> Extra, and since one goal is to minimize the differences in output  

> between implementations, I've made a tool allowing me to compare  

> who does what for any given input. I hope this can also facilitate  

> future discussions about the syntax.

>

> So here's Babelmark, a testbed for various Markdown implementations  

> were you give the input and you get the HTML output for Markdown.pl  

> 1.0.1 and 1.0.2b8, PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra, Python  

> Markdown, Text::Markdown and Text::MultiMarkdown, and finally  

> Showdown.

>


This is really totally awesome :)



> Unfortunatly, my web host doesn't do Ruby, nor Java, C# or Lua, so  

> the online version is missing a couple of interesting  

> implementations. Locally on my computer Babelmark also do  

> BlueCloth, Maruku, MarkdownJ, markdown.lua, and Pandoc. I'm very  

> sorry if your Markdown implementation can't be part of Babelmark  

> online, but if anyone has a better host to offer for Babelmark,  

> ideally with support for all of these, I'd gladly send him the  

> scripts.

>


I should be able to do all (or at least most of) the above, can I get  
a copy of the code (or access to the source control where it's  
located?).

It would be interesting to be able to track 'should be like'  
implementations (for me, especially) - what would be good is some  
system that emailed me 'aggh' emails every time someone typed  
something and Text::Markdown was different to Markdown.pl.. However  
that would be trivially easy to spam me with, so might need some  
careful thought. ;)

Cheers
Tom