Markdown headers (both styles) are ignored

[crystalfp]

Take the following fragment:

Summerhill: la scuola più felice del mondo!
-------------------------------------------
Dal libro: "I ragazzi felici di Summerhill" di Alexander Neil ed. Red
<http://www.disinformazione.it/summerhill.htm>

I bambini cresciuti nella libertà hanno molto meno odio da sfogare di quelli repressi.

Copy in a text file and set it to utf-8 charset. Now using pandoc 1.11.1 (on windows 7 64 bits) convert it to html or docx or latex. Same result. The first line (and the subsequent line of dashes) is not converted to an header. The same happens if I remove the dashes and change the first line to:

## Summerhill: la scuola più felice del mondo! ##

What I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for your help!
mario

[ousia]

Mario,

as far as I know. titles are marked at the beginning, not at the end:

## Summerhill: la scuola più felice del mondo!

I hope it helps,

Pablo

[crystalfp]

Thanks, but no way. Same as before (i.e. no header line).

I tried to remove the accented character, but does not change anything.

Thanks for your help!
mario

P.S.: The markdown format specification says are valid both forms ## xxxxxx ## and ## xxxxxx

[ousia]

It seems your first sample should work.

[crystalfp]

Strange, the on-line version (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try) works without errors.

But I found a workaround:
pandoc -r markdown_strict -w html myfile.md

Don't understand why, but now I'm able to work.

Thanks!
mario

[jgm]

I can't reproduce this, with either the development version of pandoc or the last official release.

I haven't yet tried it on a Windows machine, though.

[jgm]

Tried it on a Windows machine, and couldn't reproduce there either. I also can't think of any reason why using markdown_strict would make a difference. I'll close this now, but if you have more information that might allow me to reproduce the problem, feel free to comment and reopen.

[crystalfp]

Thanks Pablo!
Seems the crucial thing is that before the first header there are no
blank lines.
Try to add one blank line at the beginning and the example fails even
online.

Also if I do pandoc -f markdown_strict -t markdown my-example.md -o
pandoc-example.md the only thing changed is the empty line at the beginning.

Thanks again!
mario

On 12-Jul-13 22:43, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

It seems your first sample should work
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try/?text=Summerhill%3A+la+scuola+pi%C3%B9+felice+del+mondo!%0A-------------------------------------------%0ADal+libro%3A+%22I+ragazzi+felici+di+Summerhill%22+di+Alexander+Neil+ed.+Red%0A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.disinformazione.it%2Fsummerhill.htm%3E%0A%0AI+bambini+cresciuti+nella+libert%C3%A0+hanno+molto+meno+odio+da+sfogare+di+quelli+repressi.%0A&from=markdown&to=html.

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[jgm]

Aha - it's good to know that the file started with blank lines. I believe that issue has been fixed in the development version - see #882.