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[David Chambers]

Are you suggesting that a paragraph consisting solely of text that looks like a URL should be treated specially based on its file extension? Something along these lines could work, but would probably be quite fragile.

On 14 November 2013 at 10:06:16 am, Johannes Wärn (warn.johannes at gmail.com) wrote:

I will start of with an example of what I would like to be able to write in Markdown.  

---  

This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this.  

This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some pictures of my cat.  

http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg  

http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg  

http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif  

That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking:  

http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3  

And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly:  

http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4  

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I think it’s clear that the output I am suggesting for this would be something along these lines:  

<p>This is a dummy paragraph, it would of course be longer than this.</p>  
<p>This is just another dummy paragraph; however, after it comes some pictures of my cat.</p>  
<div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat1.jpg"/></div>  
<div><img src="http://www.example.com/pictureofmycat2.jpg"/></div>  
<div><img src="http://www.example.com/animatedpictureofmycat.gif"/></div>  
<p>That was nice. Here is an audio recording of my dog barking:</p>  
<audio src="http://www.example.com/dogbark.mp3"></audio>  
<p>And finally here is a video of my two pets being cuddly:</p>  
<video src="http://www.example.com/dogandcat.mp4"></video>  

I’d also say that the advantage of the syntax is clear: it’s dead simple. Furthermore it downgrades quite nicely.  

There are of course problems it does not solve and extra complexity it would introduce; however, I thought I’d write this short email to see if anyone would be interested in discussing the idea.  

Thank you for reading,  
Johannes Wärn  

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