Inline Attribute Lists

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:14:24 +0000

Mmark is a powerful markdown parser.

With Inline Attribute Lists (IALs) you can add extra information to block elements, think of extra classes, attributes or an ID. In Mmark these have the syntax: {#id .class attr="key"}. And should be specified before a block level element.

These will mostly be backend specific, i.e. a {color="blue"} might do something in HTML5 output, but does nothing in the XML v2 output. Worse yet; the XML might not validate anymore. Mmark try to help here by white listing the allowed attributes for an element (this happens in each renderer and is currently a work in progress).

Lists in lists with style

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:56:00 +0000

Mmark is a markdown dialect for writing RFCs (or books!). The main reason it exists is because the IETF is developing a new XML format (version 3) for writing RFCs. This new format is way more powerful, so sadly Pandoc2rfc does not cut it anymore.

Right now mmark fully supports writing RFCs in XML2RFC version 2, but anything written can also be converted to the (work-in-progress) XML2RFC version 3 format. In a series of blog posts I will detail some of the features, such as list styling while remaining upwards compatible.

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Inline Attribute Lists

Lists in lists with style