indicate verbatim text

[agarwal]

Is there anyway to tell OMD to copy byte-for-byte some section? I'm getting to the conclusion that inserting auto-generated html into markdown is not viable.

Here's another example that is causing me problems:

# Omd.of_string "<li><span></span></li>" |> Omd.to_html;;
- : string = "<li><span></span>\n</li>\n"

The extra new line after the span is rendered as a space, depending on the style rules I use. (I blame html. The behavior might as well be random. If I underline the list item, the space isn't rendered. However, if I use a :after css selector to add a comma after the list item, then it is.)

Rather than having OMD handle every idiosyncratic detail of whatever external language one might want to insert, maybe we should just have a way to denote a raw section.

[pw374]

On the library side, there's Raw of string or Raw_block of string in the type Omd.element.

On the command-line tool side, there's nothing to specify a verbatim section.

It wouldn't be too hard to add an option for omd to reduce the amount of \ns.

[pw374]

(related to #107)

71cd296 gives OMD 2 new command line options:

$ printf 'P<>M' | ./omd -VS P -VE M 
<>
$ printf 'Foo!<>Bar?' | ./omd -VS 'Foo!' -VE 'Bar?'
<>

For the moment it doesn't work well with code sections.

[pw374]

For the raw blocks to work in code sections, I'll have to change some types.

Code of string will probably have to become something more like Code of (string | raw) list...

[pw374]

For Omd 1.0.0 I decided to let that Code of string be, mainly because the other idea seems actually a lot more complex than just some sort of Code of (string | raw) list.

So, I'm closing this issue. But feel free to reopen it if need be.

[agarwal]

Ok, thanks. I'll let you know if I have any concrete suggestion.