(this will not be very interesting to the majority of you... but it's my blog...)
Well, I've been having some issues with Markdown rendering on this blog. I promise that when I get it all working I'll release a b2evo markdown plugin that implements Michel Fortin's PHP Markdown correctly in the b2evo plugin scheme.
Follow up:
What I was seeing is pretty much everything rendering alright except links without anchors ("inline" or "shorcut" links to those familiar with Markdown). For example, this:
This is a [link].
[link]: http://foo.bar/
didn't seem to work (usually, you'd have to do [link][] or [link][link] to remain true to the Markdown syntax documentation).
You can imagine this was a major pain in the ass as many of my posts use this non-feature of Markdown.
At first, I thought this was because Michel Fortin had rewinded that feature out of PHP Markdown as it is not a feature officially in Markdown proper... but the behavior is the same no matter if I use the newer version (1.0.1h) or a vanilla version with (1.0.1). Hmmmm. This is already starting to make my brain hurt... I have no idea what is going on.
A bit later: It turns out that it all works fine if I use version 1.0.2b2. Not sure why... I'll investigate.
UPDATE [2007-08-18T07:54:14]: Yes, it's as I suspected. Michel has commented out the part of PHP Markdown that does this shortcut link population. Now I have a quandry... do I distribute PHP Markdown 1.0.1h with the change made to make this effective or do I distribute it vanilla with a patch that people can apply to it?
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