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Is there a easier / clearer syntax like Markdown that can compile into LaTeX?

I love LaTeX. Let's get that straight right off the bat. The only thing I'm wishing for is a clearer syntax that compiles into LaTeX, like Markdown for HTML. This is because most of the simple document creation that I do (like taking notes in class), could be faster and improved if I could just type 1/2 instead of \frac{1}{2} and it com...

how to pass class attribute and value to markdown syntax

Im using python markdown for my django project, when i have the value #/usr/bin/env python print "this is converted to html code block" the output is <pre><code> #/usr/bin/env python print "this is converted to html code block" </code><pre> Now my question is that how can i pass class attribute and value to code elem. Sample: ...

rails markitup/markdown or textile

I would like to give my user's the option to nicely format their comments. I am not really looking for something super fancy, perhaps something lightweight. There is a ton of information about markup/markdown/texttile etc. Which it the way to go in rails, performance and usability, compatibility with jquery, security being the priority...

Where did I go wrong in my regex lookaround?

I'm trying to pull the first paragraph out of Markdown formatted documents: This is the first paragraph. This is the second paragraph. The answer here gives me a solution that matches the first string ending in a double line break. Perfect, except some of the texts begin with Markdown-style headers: ### This is an h3...

Django Markdown works in dev but not in prod ..

I'm using the flatpages app with markdown and on the (django) development server markdown works fine. But when deployed on my staging server with apache/mod_python, all the markup vanish and I see the raw markdown formatting. There's not much difference between my staging server and my dev server, both runs Ubuntu with the same packag...

Using Markdown, how do I center an image and its caption?

I want to end up with: Hello there! <image> This is an image Hi! Where the image and the text This is an image are centered on the page. How do I accomplish this with Markdown? Edit: Note that I'm looking to horizontally center the image and text on the page. ...

Markdown with custom syntax?

I'm using python and using markdown. Is there a simple way to add a custom syntax? I want something like [ABC] expands to a certain tag or something. or do I use regex? ...

Need a web-embedded editor that doesn't save in HTML

Our clients are able to edit some text on our "admin" web site, which then displays to their customers on another "client" web site. They now want the ability to add mark-up like bold, italic, underline (and combinations of the above) plus links to web pages. Unfortunately, because we use a web framework that passes the stored text thr...

Get first few elements of a html fragment with xpath on ruby

For a blog like project, I want to get the first few paragraphs, headers, lists or whatever within a range of characters from a markdown generated html fragment to display as a summary. So if I have <h1>hello world</h1> <p>Lets say these are 100 chars</p> <ul> <li>some bla bla, 40 chars</li> </ul> <p>some other text</p> And assum...

Which markup language? Markdown or ???

I am currently looking for a markup language to use in a project. I want to allow site vistors to edit a wiki like page using a markup language (not HTML). I am implementing this site in Ruby on Rails, and would prefer (although not bound) to use something that already has strong support in the form of a gem. There are a few main thing...

Are there text editors that can be used to create markup languages (like markdown, rest and such?)

I'm becoming more interested in markdown and rest for documentation/requisites in projects, but some people in the team aren't that techie to use and remember these markups. It's going to be a bad move to just adopt them when they're used to OpenOffice files. There is a visual editor for Latex, named Lyx, that is WYSIWYM and WYSIWYG, bu...

A comparison of markup languages: markdown, markup, wikiformat, restructuredtext,bbcode

This is a collection of markup language comparison, which may cover the below points, please don't close this question. easy to write. easy to read. integration for program languages. convert tools for html/pdf other staffs. ...

how to display content with raw html

Hi, @post.body has following content (which is converted from Markdown by using RDiscount).How should I render it to the user in what it means? i.e I want to render it as strong text emphasized text... <p><strong>strong text</strong> </p> <p><em>emphasized text</em> </p> <blockquote> <p>this is a quote</p> </blockquote><p><img src="ht...

How can I convert a large Multimarkdown file into HTML?

I have a large (~4GB) text file written in Multimarkdown format, and I would like to convert it to HTML. I tried: use strict; use warnings; use File::Map qw (map_file); use Text::MultiMarkdown qw (markdown); my $filename = shift // die; map_file (my $text, $filename); print markdown($text); but it still chokes memory. ...

How can I format Multimarkdown tables?

I'm writing Multimarkdown tables following the guidelines under the Table section in the syntax guide, and I wish to convert them to HTML using Text::MultiMarkdown . It works great, The only problem is I can't figure out how to control the formatting of the tables (show borders, align headers, font size etc). ...

How can I simply make my HTML table 'dynamic'?

I'm writing Multimarkdown from Perl to create an HTML table. I wonder if there's a simple way to make the table dynamic , that is, allow the viewer sort it by clicking on a column header, or even filter records by entering a simple rule. I do not really know HTML. I'm coding in Perl and only generate HTML (actually, Multimarkdown conve...