Pipe character added after dashes

[BrenBarn]

Entering three hyphens in running text (---), then saving and reloading, causes WP-Markdown to reparse the --- as \---|. The pipe character | is added for some reason. When this is saved, the pipe is saved too, so a literal pipe appears in the post text. When the post is reloaded again, another pipe is added, so it becomes \---||, and so on, so every time you save and reload, more pipes appear in the post.

[stephenharris]

I believe this is because that is the syntax for tables (http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#table). What is the purpose of the three dashes? If you want to use an em dash, you could use either the character itself — or —.

[BrenBarn]

According to that page, the table markdown requires the hyphens separating header and content to be on a line by themselves. Hyphens in the middle of a line shouldn't be interpreted as part of a table.

I'm used to LaTeX, in which three hyphens is an em dash and two is an en dash. There's no easy way to type an actual emdash character. I could of course type —, but the whole point of markdown is to provide simpler ways to write things. If this lib doesn't support the triple-hyphen, that's fine, but it shouldn't then go adding pipes to it.

[stephenharris]

I'm aware of that. My suggestion was that this was perhaps confusing the MarkDown extra class. On closer inspection, the fault lies in Markdownify incorrectly parsing the mdash.