blog! “Is this a bug in every Markdown (Extra) parser?”
Markdown is, I think it is fair to say, a frustrating "specification". It's origins are a back-of-a-fag-packet document and a buggy Perl script - and we've been dealing with the consequences ever since. There are now multiple Markdown parsers, each with their own idiosyncrasies. To make matters w…
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Jgm blogged about the Dilemma of Markdown (1)
(1): Beyond Markdown
https://johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markdown.html
And he took those as an opportunity to launch djot https://djot.net
I think it's a reasonable solution, but it's difficult to spread ;/