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> markdown is designed to transform to HTML Is it though?

• nerdponx 4y ago
  More or less, yes.
  • divan 4y ago
    less
• hoppyhoppy2 4y ago
  >Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). From 2004 https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
  • divan 4y ago
    > Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. I believe nowadays most people refer to (1) instead of Perl tool, when talking about Markdown. Personally I use Markdown *a lot* for Flutter apps, where text is rendered natively. Also use it for legal documents, which are converted to PDF via pandoc. Another project I have is a console app that also shows formatted help text written in Markdown. In all these cases there is no HTML whatsoever and no 'text-to-HTML conversion tool'. Yet it's all Markdown, so no need to reduce its applications to HTML, let alone claiming that it's designed "to transform to HTML".