Markdent::Dialect::Theory(3pm)

NAME
Markdent::Dialect::Theory - Markdown extensions proposed by David Wheeler (aka Theory)

SYNOPSIS
  use Markdent::Parser;

  my $parser = Markdent::Parser->new( dialects => 'Theory', handler => ... );

DESCRIPTION
The Theory roles add parsing for Markdown extensions proposed by David Wheeler (aka Theory). See <http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/markdown-table-rfc.html> and <http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html> for details.

  DEVIATIONS
The dialect differs from David Wheeler's proposals in a few ways. Most of these deviations were discussed with David Wheeler and included with his approval.

•   The header's "marker" row can use "+====+" as well as "+----+":

      | Header 1 | Header 2 |
      +==========+==========+
      | Body 1   | Body 2   |

•   The table does not require a header:

      | Body 1 | Body 2 |
      | Body 3 | Body 4 |

•   You can include a header marker at the beginning and/or end of the table. This matches how MySQL outputs tables from its CLI tool.

      +------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+
      | id   | name        | description                  | price  |
      +------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+
      |    1 | gizmo       | Takes care of the doohickies |   1.99 |
      |    2 | doodad      | Collects *gizmos*            |  23.80 |
      |   10 | dojigger    | Foo                          | 102.98 |
      | 1024 | thingamabob | Self-explanatory, no?        |   0.99 |
      +------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+

•   Currently it just does tables, not definition lists. This will be fixed in a future release.

•   Table continuation lines are expected to have the same number of cells as the line being continued. In other words, this doesn't work:

     | cell1 | cell2     |
             : continues

    Instead, you must write this:

     | cell1 | cell2     |
     :       : continues :

    This is not an approved deviation, and may be corrected in a future release if I can figure out how to do so (patches welcome).

BUGS
See Markdent for bug reporting details.

AUTHOR
Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2009-2012 Dave Rolsky, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.