[Po4a-devel] po4a & Markdown

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Sergey Korobitsin (2015-01-28 09:25:36)
> Jonas Smedegaard ☫ → To Sergey Korobitsin @ Wed, Jan 28, 2015 09:04 +0100
>
>> Hmm, not sure if you mean to say that it isn't working or that you 
>> solved the problem on your own.  Obviously I hope it is the latter 
>> :-)
>
> You pointed me to an option of po4a-updatepo, and I don't use it 
> directly, but via main po4a executable. I've solved the problem with 
> your help, thanks :-)

Ahh, now I get it :-)


>>> P.S. As I've found, not all features of Markdown are supported, the 
>>> first one is old style headers (==== and ----). But they are 
>>> preserved in PO file, so that's not a big problem.
>>
>> My goal was to parse not all Markdown markup but the least possible 
>> to not break when tumbling it through po4a.
>
> OK, that's clear to me.
>
>> As I recall, I found old-style headers to cause problems treated as 
>> plain text - what (non-big) problem do you see with it?
>
> A I see, non-sophisticated translator can omit the '=====' and '----' 
> lines and leave only translated header itself, and at the output we'll 
> get broken structure. Then, it can be workarounded by some kind of 
> Translator's HOWTO, but people are people, and it would better if this 
> case processes automatically.

I don't follow how current loose parsing leads to broken structure - 
i.e. how it is an actual (not just an academic) problem.  Can you 
elaborate on that - perhaps give an example of how it can break (even 
if, as you already wrote, the breakage is minor)?


 - Jonas

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