Markup Alternatives

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• Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2026

  `Textile` is a similar language to Markdown, used to weave text across multiple IDEs, programming languages, and CMSs:

  https://textile-lang.com/

  Textile is one of the core markups supported by GitHub and Pandoc:

  https://github.com/github/markup / https://pandoc.org/

  And many CMS, most famously TextPattern and MoveableType, but also things like Jekyll:

  https://textile-lang.com/article/textile-markup-language-sup...

• Give your brain time to think and remember
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2023

  Btw github supports more than just markdown: https://github.com/github/markup#markups

• Documentation generators and custom syntax highlighting
  5 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 5 May 2023

  I'm not sure 4. works for colors/styling, style attributes are stripped: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/119

• Do you think we will see color text in GFM?
  1 project | /r/github | 15 Feb 2023
• Hiding front matter block in github markdown
  1 project | /r/github | 9 Nov 2022

  I found this issue, which does not show much traction: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/994

• Hi DM's, what medium do you use to organise your campaign?
  3 projects | /r/DnD | 11 Oct 2022

  For sharing settings and lore with players, GitHub wiki. Understands Org and several other formats thanks to GitHub Markup, so I can copy in (and trim down) my original notes without much fuss.

• raw-markdown and rendered markdown
  2 projects | /r/Markdown | 20 Jun 2022
• Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
  22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2022

  Re: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/533

  I’m the main author of KeenWrite (see screenshots), a type of desktop Markdown editor that supports diagrams. It’s encouraging to see that Mermaid diagrams are being supported in GitHub. There are a few drawbacks on the syntax and implications of using MermaidJS.

  First, only browser-based SVG renderers can correctly parse Mermaid diagrams. I’ve tested Apache Batik, svgSalamander, resvg, rsvg-convert, svglib, CairoSVG, ConTeXt, and QtSVG. See issue 2485. This implies that typesetting Mermaid diagrams is not currently possible. In effect, by including Mermaid diagrams, many documents will be restricted to web-based output, excluding the possibility of producing PDF documents based on GitHub markdown documents (for the foreseeable future).

  Second, there are numerous text-to-diagram facilities available beyond Mermaid. The server at https://kroki.io/ supports Mermaid, PlantUML, Graphviz, byte fields, and many more. While including MermaidJS is a great step forward, supporting Kroki diagrams would allow a much greater variety. (Most diagrams produced in MermaidJS can also be crafted in Graphviz, albeit with less terse syntax.)

  Third, see the CommonMark discussion thread referring to a syntax for diagrams. It’s unfortunate that a standard “namespace” concept was not proposed.

  Fourth, KeenWrite integrates Kroki. To do so, it uses a variation on the syntax:

      ``` diagram-mermaid

• Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2021

  I thought it only rendered files in the repo (match by extension). Does GH also allow asciidoc(tor) syntax in comments and issues?

  * Note: Sadly, include is not supported on GH. https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1095

• Compare AsciiDoc and Markdown
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2021
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