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This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown? How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites u
by foo101 9y ago
This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown?
How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites using it? If I write my blog posts in commonmark is it safe to assume site generation tools 10 years from now will correctly render commonmark?
- reificator 9y agoThe main competitor to CommonMark is GFM, which is now based on CommonMark. https://githubengineering.com/a-formal-spec-for-github-markdown/ https://githubengineering.com/a-formal-spec-for-github-markd...
- vram22 9y agoI had checked out CommonMark a bit and blogged about it here, including an example of using it, and a bit about their goals: CommonMark, a pure Python Markdown parser and renderer: https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/commonmark-pure-python-markdown-parser.html https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/commonmark-pure-python-ma... One interesting point from them was this: [ Reddit user bracewel, who seems to be a CommonMark team member, said on the Py Reddit thread: eventually we'd like to add a few more renderers, PDF/RTF being the first.... ]
- reificator 9y agoInteresting, I have a little sideproject at work that would really benefit from markdown -> rtf.