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> much more standardized and rational than markdown Can you explain? I mean, I imagine there aren't really various flavors of Org Mode, but that doesn't make

• kramerger 3y ago
  See this https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/aaol8t/why_does_markdown_not_have_a_standard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/aaol8t/why_...
  • deafpolygon 3y ago
    That refers to Markdown. I'm asking about how Org Mode is 'standardized'.
    • mediumsmart 3y ago
      It uses standard org mode plaintext.
    • kramerger 3y ago
      Org mode is standardised, markdown is not.
• goku12 3y ago
  There are two reasons why I call Org mode standardized. > I imagine there aren't really various flavors of Org Mode, but that doesn't make it standardized. All the implementations that call themselves org-mode follow the conventions set by the canonical implementation - the Emacs org-mode. While this may not sound like a good reason to call it standardized, the practical implication is a vast difference from what you get with various markdown flavors. In the latter case, the only way to make sure that your markdown is correct is to test it with the target implementation. The second reason is that there is an actual effort to standardize org-mode - called Orgdown [1]. Org-mode is already more or less uniform across implementations. This effort tries to write it down as a reference. Markdown has a similar effort called CommonMark. But if you want to know why it's different, you have to look at the history of why it isn't called 'Standard Markdown'. [1] https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown