Textile support? about blackfriday HOT 2 CLOSED

I've never used Textile; it appears to similar to markdown but with an incompatible syntax. How do you envision adding it?

After a quick scan of the Wikipedia article, it appears that the parsing functions would mostly be different due to differing syntax, so there may not be a ton of room for code sharing, but most of the rendering backend(s) could be pretty much the same. We could end up with an API where you select your backend and your parser:

// for either
renderer := blackfriday.HtmlRenderer(html_flags)

// for markdown
output := blackfriday.Markdown(input, renderer, markdown_options)

// for textile
output := blackfriday.Textile(input, renderer, textile_options)

Is that similar to what you had in mind?

I'd love to collaborate on it with you; as you pointed out, there isn't much use in duplicating effort. I'm currently focusing on writing some unit tests, cleaning up (and in some cases rewriting) the most confusing parts, and optimizing. If you'd like to start working on Textile support, I'd be happy to merge it and make it even more useful for people.

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Yes, that's pretty much is my thinking: a completely new parser, but using similar structure and techniques as markdown parser, and sharing render(s).

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