Markdown extension suggestion: note

[nzakas]

I'm mainly using Pandoc to convert from Markdown to Docbook, and it's working out great. The one thing I'm missing is the ability to create elements in Docbook. So I'd like to suggest a new Markdown extension for notes. Basically, if a paragraph begins with "Note: ", treat it as a note block when converted to Docbook. For example:

Note: This would end up being a <note> element in Docbook.

[jgm]

In the development version of pandoc (on github), you can do this:

<note>
This is my *note*.
</note>

and it will turn into

<note>
This is my <emphasis>note</emphasis>.
</note>

An advantage of this method is that the docbook tags will just
be ignored for other output formats than docbook.

+++ Nicholas C. Zakas [Nov 28 11 16:03 ]:

I'm mainly using Pandoc to convert from Markdown to Docbook, and it's working out great. The one thing I'm missing is the ability to create elements in Docbook. So I'd like to suggest a new Markdown extension for notes. Basically, if a paragraph begins with "Note: ", treat it as a note block when converted to Docbook. For example:

Note: This would end up being a <note> element in Docbook.

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[nzakas]

Ah interesting. Not as pretty as my suggestion, but will definitely get me there. Thanks!