Yeah. A lot of stuff was added later. The original spec was pretty loose, which is why CommonMark became a thing. See https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-m

Yeah. A lot of stuff was added later. The original spec was pretty loose, which is why CommonMark became a thing. See https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo... and linked previous blog posts if you (or anyone else reading this) are interested in the history.