On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language

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  • KeenWrite

    Discontinued Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.

  • Here are a few Markdown documents I've typeset into PDF:

    * https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

    * https://pdfhost.io/v/4FeAGGasj_SepiSolar_Highlevel_Software_...

    * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...

    My text editor, KeenWrite[1] (see tutorials[3] for details), converts from Markdown to XHTML. The XHTML is then typeset using the ConTeXt typesetting software to create a PDF. The PDF is stylized using a theme[2].

    [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/tree/main/exa...

    [3]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

  • keenwrite-themes

    Discontinued Document typesetting configurations using ConTeXt

  • Here are a few Markdown documents I've typeset into PDF:

    * https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

    * https://pdfhost.io/v/4FeAGGasj_SepiSolar_Highlevel_Software_...

    * https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...

    My text editor, KeenWrite[1] (see tutorials[3] for details), converts from Markdown to XHTML. The XHTML is then typeset using the ConTeXt typesetting software to create a PDF. The PDF is stylized using a theme[2].

    [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/tree/main/exa...

    [3]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

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  • commonmark-spec

    CommonMark spec, with reference implementations in C and JavaScript

  • >A single canonical reference

    https://commonmark.org/

  • html2xhtml

    Command-line HTML to XHTML converter

  • > I'm pretty sure the author would say that what you end up with is a KeenWrite document.

    Documents written in KeenWrite can be typeset using tools that already exist:

    * https://yihui.org/knitr/

    * https://pandoc.org/

    * https://github.com/jfisteus/html2xhtml

    I've kept compatibility with pandoc (CommonMark) and knitr a priority; I wrote KeenWrite to replace a shell script that was calling out to those software packages. My Typesetting Markdown blog posts dive into the script and programs:

    https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...

  • pandoc

    Universal markup converter

  • > I'm pretty sure the author would say that what you end up with is a KeenWrite document.

    Documents written in KeenWrite can be typeset using tools that already exist:

    * https://yihui.org/knitr/

    * https://pandoc.org/

    * https://github.com/jfisteus/html2xhtml

    I've kept compatibility with pandoc (CommonMark) and knitr a priority; I wrote KeenWrite to replace a shell script that was calling out to those software packages. My Typesetting Markdown blog posts dive into the script and programs:

    https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...

  • tagged_text

    Agnostic Markdown Tagged{Text} and static site generator

  • Evolve5Help

    Evolve 5.0 Help, Unit Tests, Instruction documentation

  • Source Code for the second website: https://github.com/kjs452/Evolve5Help

    The main python file is: taggedtext.py (the parser).

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