Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y


Jason McBrayer writes:
> It is perhaps unfortunate that despite there being Markdown parser
> libraries for every common language, practically all of them are
> focused on generating HTML rather than generating (e.g.) a parse tree
> that you could use in your own layout engine.

I've actually looked at the internals of the Python and Common Lisp
libraries for MarkDown, and they both have extension points that could
reasonably be hijacked for returning parse trees, for what it's worth.
Still might be a bit much for someone trying to write a quick-and-dirty
client. 

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| Jason F. McBrayer                                jmcbray at carcosa.net |
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