> There's an easy solution - have syntax that turns off parsing (a nowiki type syntax). Okay, that's fair, but CommonMark standardized de facto standards -- it

> There's an easy solution - have syntax that turns off parsing (a nowiki type syntax). Okay, that's fair, but CommonMark standardized de facto standards -- it was born as Standard Markdown after all -- and AFAIK there's no de facto standard here, so it would be pretty dangerous for jgm to pull something out of thin air. I can see why there's reluctance here. (IIRC fenced code blocks were pretty widespread before CommonMark, and even if not, being part of GFM would almost make it a de facto standard. Note that CommonMark was a joint effort among GitHub, Stack Exchange, Reddit, etc.; SE's <!-- lang --> solution was atrocious, so GFM fenced code block was an obvious win.) Also, code blocks with language specification is apparently of way higher importance to programmers than typeset math, so comparing the two isn't that useful. (I say this as a physicist who breathe typeset math.) Now, going back to > you can't use this together with code blocks containing $ (meaning it doesn't work for languages like PHP and R). Why do you need to typeset math within code blocks or code spans? Code blocks and code spans are verbatim by definition. Interpret $ inside code blocks and code spans as verbatim; interpret $ outside as LaTeX delimiters. Problem solved. Maybe I'm missing something.