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Any sufficiently complicated lightweight markup format contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, and only slightly easier to use implementation of h

• nequo 2y ago
  Yes but Djot is pretty good though! Wouldn’t call it informal nor bug-ridden, it’s well thought out and doesn’t have many corner cases: https://djot.net/ https://djot.net/ Designed by one of the authors of CommonMark, an attempt to specify a standardized flavor of Markdown.
  • 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
    I just wish it would move along already. I get it, some tough calls need to be made on edge cases that do not have a correct answer. Yet I want a 1.0 release so I can feel confident that the language will have staying power. Then again, it is already in pandoc, so I suppose you can trivially move out of it.
  • keybored 2y ago
    Djot insists that this nesting of bullet points is wrong: - first - second Instead you need this: - first - second I’m very picky about the aesthetics of lightweight MLs so this is tough to swallow. EDIT: By the way, recent comment from the primary developer: https://github.com/jgm/djot/discussions/310#discussioncomment-10182767 https://github.com/jgm/djot/discussions/310#discussioncommen...
    • kps 2y ago
      Not having used djot myself, does “rethink tight/loose lists” refer to that?
• the__alchemist 2y ago
  Indeed; Github will now render TeX in markdown documents, eg when displayed as a repo's readme. Very convenient.