Report on multiple classes for MDITA headers

[Carlos Evia <cevia@vt.edu>]

Dear people,

Reporting on my homework to investigate the inclusion of several ids and classes in Markdown for possible MDITA specialization based on Michael’s XDITA template project.

In Markdown Extra and Pandoc, the following header is valid:

## To dos {.todos .sequence .example}

Transformed with Pandoc to HTML, it generates the following:

<h2 id="to-dos" class="todos sequence example">To dos</h2>

In Jarno's plugin, it generates a section:

<div class="example todos sequence”>

So, there is potential for adapting the XDITA specialization idea to MDITA. One major limitation, of course, is that no decent Markdown flavor allows identifiers in paragraphs.

That’s all we have.

Best,

Carlos

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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.

Director of Professional and Technical Writing

Associate Professor of Technical Communication

Department of English

Center for Human-Computer Interaction

Virginia Tech

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