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But there isn't a standardised version of Markdown. There's John Gruber's original syntax, and there are dozens if not hundreds of variants. When some enterpri

But there isn't a standardised version of Markdown. There's John Gruber's original syntax, and there are dozens if not hundreds of variants. When some enterprising people declared they had created "Standard Markdown" the original author got very upset: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common... Markdown does not have standards, it's just a collection of base formatting conventions a lot of people like.

pyre 12y ago
> There's John Gruber's original syntax, and there are dozens if not hundreds of variants. All of the variants exist due to the many undefined edge cases in the original syntax, and not further development by Gruber to 'officially' resolve ambiguities. Some of them became their own standards (e.g. MultiMarkdown) others just became undocumented behaviours of certain Markdown parsers and/or generators when handling edge-cases with no defined 'official' way to handle them. > When some enterprising people declared they had created "Standard Markdown" the original author got very upset: This seems to have more to do with the name being 'Standard Markdown' and seeing it as an attempt to usurp 'ownership' of the 'Markdown' name. Said author didn't flip out over variants like MultiMarkdown. > Markdown does not have standards, it's just a collection of base formatting conventions a lot of people like. The efforts of people to standardize it are efforts to resolve this idea, and make Markdown more formal.