Announcing Spirit Markdown

[Waylan Limberg]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM, John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> +++ Alastair Rankine [May 11 10 21:51 ]:

>>

>>    Boost Spirit is a parser generator for PEG-based grammars. My grammar

>>    is based on John MacFarlane's PEG grammars for markdown, and to him I

>>    am much indebted. There are however quite a few differences between

>>    John's and mine and I'd be happy to discuss them.

>

> Yes, I'd be interested (especially if some of the differences are

> mistakes in peg-markdown, which I could correct).

>


Well, there are three things he lists in his README file [1]:


> * No UTF-16 or any other other "wide" character sets.

> * Doesn't handle [nested [square brackets [with links][] ]]

> * Poor error handling. Needs to do a better job at describing parsing errors, particularly.


[1]: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~arankine/spirit-markdown/trunk/annotate/head:/readme.text#L52

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