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chasrmartin

21 Jul, 2013 05:15 PM

I've been using Ullyses III for pretty much all my writing, and in general I love it. However, U3 and Marked aren't playing nicely together, and I'm not sure which is the problem.

Here's the situation. If I write a file in U3 and export it to Markdown, paragraph breaks aren't creating <p></p> I've attached a file showing examples. The problem seems to be that when marked interprets a markdown file, it wants *two* crlfs to separate paragraphs. I'm unsure what the "correct" behavior is.

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1. 1 Posted by chasrmartin on 23 Jul, 2013 04:40 AM

   

   I've now created an account, and this time I think I have the full example I talked about.

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Brett on 14 Aug, 2013 01:14 AM

   

   Sorry for the delayed response on this one, got lost in my queue.

   A double line break is always needed in Markdown to create new paragraphs. You can enable <br> tags on line breaks in preferences, but creating <p> tags requires the extra line break.

   Is Ulysses recognizing these as paragraphs?

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3. 3 Posted by chasrmartin on 14 Aug, 2013 01:37 AM

   

   Hi, Brett, I can relate on the email queue, believe me.

   Yeah; I've been back and forth a couple of times with the U3 guys about
   this, including finally copying them the appropriate excerpt from the
   Markdown spec. Basically, if you use their markup, either straight
   markdown or their markdown-with-metadata they call Markdown XL, the display
   code recognizes a single newline as a paragraph: if you have enabled
   inter-paragraph space and initial indents in your preferences, you get an
   apparent paragraph break.

   If you export the text to HTML from U3, it makes them properly-marked
   paragraphs. But if you export markdown, it exports them with a single
   newline at the graf breaks.

   The solution, delivered I'm sure in a proper Prussian accent, is that if
   you want to have full-fledged markdown, you need to put in two line breaks
   yourself. (Strictly they're in Saxony, but call it artistic license.)

   Not a terrible issue, once I figured it out, but less than well documented.

   It's kind of a shame. I like the U3 model for managing text; I'd like to
   use MultiMarkdown; Composer doesn't let me manipulate parts and such as
   well as U3; Marked is a much better preview and formatting engine. I could
   probably hack a U3-like interface in EMACS, but I don't have lots of time
   for extra-curricular hacking any more.

   In any case, you can close this ticket; it's not your problem, it's U3's.

   Regards

   Charlie Martin

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4. Brett closed this discussion on 14 Aug, 2013 01:45 AM.