Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

[Monte Goulding]

Yes it’s not intended as markdown to htmlText so if you need that you may need to fiddle with the output or roll your own. Reporting any issues with dp 2 would be very helpful.

Cheers

Monte

> On 11 Jul 2016, at 3:10 PM, me at jerrydaniels.com wrote:
> 
> I got it to work already, but I think it returns</br>for line breaks (which is the current way to do that) but LC doesn't like them. So I have to add my own.
> 
> Also, dp2 may be too unstable for me to be productive. I'll probably write a basic translator myself, in the meantime.
> 
> Thx for getting back to me on this.
> 
> Best, Jerry
> 
> On Jul 10, 2016, 7:21 PM -0500, Monte Goulding<monte at appisle.net>, wrote:
>> Hi Jerry
>> 
>> It looks like you’ve found a bug in my build tools. I’ll try and get a fix in dp-3. For the time being:
>> 
>> Name: mergMarkdownToXHTML
>> 
>> Type: function
>> 
>> Syntax: mergMarkdownToXHTML(<pMarkdown>, [<pNoIntraEmphasis>,<pTable>,<pFencedCode>,<pAutoLink>,<pStrikethrough>,<pSpaceHeaders>,<pSuperscript>,<pLaxSpacing>])
>> 
>> Summary: Returns the XHTML translation of the markdown document.
>> 
>> Introduced: 8.0
>> 
>> OS: ios,android,linux,mac,windows
>> 
>> Platforms: mobile,desktop,server
>> 
>> Parameters:
>> pMarkdown (string): The markdown text to translate.
>> pNoIntraEmphasis (boolean): Don't add emphasis if there is no space on either
>> side of the
>> underscores. If true _this_ will be emphasized but_this_won't be.
>> pTable (boolean): Support tables.
>> pFencedCode (boolean): Support fenced code.
>> pAutoLink (boolean): Auto link urls in the text
>> pStrikethrough (boolean): Use a double tilde(~) either side of a word to
>> indicate ~~strikethrough~~
>> pSpaceHeaders (boolean): If true forces a space after the # for headers
>> pSuperscript (boolean): If true use ^ to indicate the start of a superscript
>> word
>> pLaxSpacing (boolean): If true allows lax spacing. For example it will allow no
>> space between a paragraph and a list.
>> Returns: XHTML
>> 
>> Example:
>> put mergMarkdownToXHTML(theMarkdownText,,true) into theHTML
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Monte
>> 
>>> On 11 Jul 2016, at 10:11 AM, Jerry Daniels<me at jerrydaniels.com>wrote:
>>> 
>>> Monte,
>>> 
>>> As far as I can tell, mergMarkDown is not in the dictionary. Is it part of this build? I do need to know the syntax to use it. I did see what I think might be it (mergMarkdown-x64) in the new inclusions.
>>> 
>>> Appreciate any help you can offer with this.
>>> 
>>> JD
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 10, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Monte Goulding<monte at appisle.net>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 11 Jul 2016, at 9:17 AM, me at jerrydaniels.com wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does the markdown support tables? I know some do.
>>>> 
>>>> Tables are optional. There’s parameters to turn on and off support for a heap of things ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> 
>>>> Monte
>>>> 
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