[kramdown-users] Proposal: block level image tag

[Thomas Leitner]

On 2010-07-15 10:22 +0200 Michael Franzl wrote:
> On 07/15/2010 09:50 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > Taking into account the role of Markdown/kramdown as a tool for
> > producing nicely marked-up output from simplified input, then it
> > makes sense for it to function in an intuitive manner for the
> > common cases even at the expense of the less common cases being a
> > bit more verbose. Your proposal that the resulting image would be
> > stand-alone seems the more intuitive of the two outcomes, and thus
> > sounds quite reasonable. An image within a paragraph is still
> > possible by adding a bit of (ugly) HTML markup:
> >
> > <p markdown="1">![alt text](image.jpg)</p>
> >
> > This sort of added ugliness for the less common case may be a decent
> > compromise.
> 
> I agree with Eric on this one. Further, the figure environment allows 
> LaTeX to place the image according to it's high typesetting standards.

Then off we go implementing this :-) Will be in the 0.10.0 release,
coming this weekend.

-- Thomas