New Code!

Discount has (finally) been rolled up to version 1.3.0 with the addition of documentation for all of the new features I put in for the 1.3.0prexxx series.

To recap the feature list, I’ve added

In the theme program, if I pass it a directory argument it will attempt to open the file index in that directory.
Add the flag MKD_STRICT, which disables superscript (A^B ≠ A^B) and sane handling of A_B
Add blockquote-as-division processing; a blockquote that has a first line of >%ident% expands to
```
 <div class="ident">
       .
       .
       .
 </div>
```

instead of the traditional

    <blockquote>
          .
          .
          .
    </blockquote>

Extend list processing to enable alphabetic lists;

 a. this
 b. is a
 c. test

expands to

 <ol type=a>
 <li>this</li>
 <li>is a</li>
 <li>test</li>
 </ol>

(enabled with -enable-alpha-list)

Add table of content support; if discount is run with the MKD_TOC flag, <hN>’s are name=d, and the function mkd_generatetoc() will dump a nested list containing links to every header in the document.
Add the new function mkd_xhtmlpage(), which dumps the document wrapped in a skeletal html page, with the title taken from the header block and styles taken from any <style> blocks.
Add the new demo program makepage, which is a program wrapper around mkd_xhtmlpage()

And I’ve fixed a few bugs and boundary conditions:

Single-character ETX headers now work.
Null lists don’t cause core dumps any more.
Don’t set subblock paragraph alignment unless that subblock actually has content.
Zero the input buffer every time I finish processing it (I was getting lookback errors with relaxed emphasis.)
An inline code block now needs both beginning and ending `’s
When processing lists, don’t kick header blocks out of the line.
Correct list processing so that
```
 - A
 1. B
```
produces a single <ul> list, not a <ul> list followed by a <ol> list.
Do not superscript items inside a title.
The line ## should now expand to <h1>#</h1>

Have I missed anything? Perhaps I have, but there’s only one way to find out – grab this New Code! and see if the smoke comes rolling out of your computer or not.

—orc Sat Nov 8 20:31:00 2008

This Space for Rent

New Code!