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markdown-it
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Markdown Syntax & Features: A Comprehensive 2025 Guide
CommonMark - A widely-used Markdown specification.
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6 free Markdown (.md) WYSIWYG desktop Editors – Part1
[2] CommonMark https://commonmark.org/
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Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple's 'It's Glowtime' Keynote
Agreed on Markdown. It illustrated there was an unfilled niche in mark-up between Unix plain-text, HTML, and RTF. I use it nearly every day.
I adore that CommonMark exists too: https://commonmark.org/ .
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TextBundle
Something that isn’t clear to me from this spec http://textbundle.org/spec/ is the exact format of Markdown that should be used here.
I was under the impression that the Gruber original at https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ wasn’t well enough specified (unless you want to treat a 20 year old Perl script as a specification) to be interoperable - hence efforts like https://commonmark.org/
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Executable Blog Posts: Second Take
Mark the input as CommonMark with YAML metadata block extension.
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How to add a man page to your Ruby project, using kramdown-man and markdown
Edit: this is because GitHub uses cmark-gfm, which is a fork of cmark, which implements the CommonMark variant of markdown. Looks like CommonMark still doesn't support definition lists. :(
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How do you host documentation for your spouse or other users?
BookStack dev here. There's no specific "import" option but you can use the Markdown editor in BookStack and paste in your Markdown content there. The API is essentially just an endpoint to accept the same kind of data, for of course you could automate against the API for batch import. One thing to keep in mind is that BookStack markdown support is fairly tightly scoped to (commonmark + tables + tasklists), although HTML within MD is supported.
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On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
>A single canonical reference
https://commonmark.org/
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Get ready for Bear 2 - We have a quick blog post with some important details and ways you can get notified once it's out!
Typically with major new releases of software, when the number left of the dot (e.g. 2.0) increases, it’s shipped as a separate product. Not always, but generally. The Bear folks can speak for themselves but IIRC a lot of the code was refactored / rewritten to support, for example, CommonMark. So, under the hood, it’s literally brand new in some respects.
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Best website to write a rulebook for ttrpgs
I use Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) for a lot of things, including my RPG stuff, and there are options for exporting things as PDFs. It’s great for getting organized and doing research, but I would use other tools for long-form writing and layout. What I like about Obsidian though is that everything is done in Markdown (https://commonmark.org) and I can use Pandoc (https://pandoc.org) to transform the source to whatever I need. The caveat is that Obsidian uses a flavor of Markdown with some non-standard extensions, so a pure Markdown editor like Typora (https://typora.io) might be a better choice depending on your needs.
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commonmark/commonmark-spec is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of commonmark-spec is Python.
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