Hello,
>> There are different flavour of markdown, maybe you should document which
>> one is targetted. Should it be CommonMark? Another variant? Why?
>
> This should be pandoc pipe table. It's because it is similar to aligned
> format. I need add this to documentation (i have it in recent TODO)
I still do not understand "why" this variant vs CommonMark or whatever
other version.
>> ISTM that the md format lacks escaping for special md characters [...]
>> I'd say that you need to do escaping more or less similar to html?
>
> There is problem with markown and newlines. Replacing newline by br was
> only solution that I was able to find.
Fine. That does not answer the question about escaping other special md
characters.
>> Also, it seems that you use distinct vertical bar characters in the
>> format? Or is this a trick of my terminal?? It seems that your patch
>> introduces U+2502 (BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL) instead of the usual pipe
>> in some places. Maybe you copy-pasted things from the unicode linestyle.
>
> Main of the functionality is used from aligned format. I tested returned
> tables in retext and it works. If i have another character than standart
> pipe, it shouldn`t work.
Sure. ISTM that you are currently using U+2502 instead of pipe, hence my
point.
>> Why are *_newline variants added for length and formatting? Would it be
>> possible to do without, say by relying on the line count computed by the
>> standard function for instance?
>
> It`s because newlines in markdown, If I need to do it without copy this
> function, i had to add parameter for markdown to this functions.
Then maybe it is an option to consider to avoid duplicating code.
--
Fabien.
