The best part of Markdown is that you can embed HTML, and the author gets it wrong by saying you can't mix the two freely. In CommonMark (and thus most modern

The best part of Markdown is that you can embed HTML, and the author gets it wrong by saying you can't mix the two freely. In CommonMark (and thus most modern Markdown implementations) you can embed Markdown in HTML like this: <table><tr><td> *This is markdown* </td></tr></table> You need blank lines before and after the tags. I think you could do this in markdown.pl but there were some quirks/limitations. ---- Related: CommonMark is a Useful, High-Quality Project http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/02/14.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/02/14.html