multiline header

[Aristotle Pagaltzis]

Hi Alexandre,

* Alexandre Leray <alexandre at alexandreleray.com> [2010-03-01 22:35]:

> I have a document with quite long titles and I was wondering if

> it was possible to hard-break them:

>

> e.g.:

>

> This is a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrry long title

> =======================================================

>

> would be

>

> This is a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrry

> ============================================

> long title

> ==========

>

> Right now it produces two <h1/> tags.


you could always fall back on HTML:

    <h1>This is a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrry
    long title</h1>

If you need inline formatting inside the header, then hopefully
your implementation supports the `markdown` pseudo-attribute:

    <h1 markdown=1>This is a very, very, very, *very*
    long title</h1>


* Waylan Limberg <waylan at gmail.com> [2010-03-02 00:05]:

> And that's the problem, lazy authors have been relying on the

> existing behavior for so long that changing it now could break

> thousands of existing documents.


This sort of laziness seems like a design goal of Markdown, not
a bug in its users.


* Tim Visher <tim.visher at gmail.com> [2010-03-02 02:30]:

> If you're desperate for a multi-line header in markdown, you

> have a few options.

>

> 1. Use Non-semantic markup directly in the document:

>

>     <h1>This is line one of a<br />

>         very long header!</h1>

>

>    That's not recommended simply on the grounds of it not being

>    semantic and no one likes non-semantic markup. ;)


Non-semantic, says who?

More importantly, the problem was not to display a header across
two lines in the rendered document, it was being able to write
the header across several lines in the source document (and still
have a single tag in the rendered document), so your solutions
aren’t.


Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>