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What is CommonMark and why use it?

  • Original markdown was not perfect, created bugs, and hasn’t been updated since 2004 (source: https://commonmark.org)
  • Over the following decade people came up with many iterations of markdown
    • leads to documents that render differently in one system vs another, like GitHub vs Pandoc
    • No standard test reference
      • mdTest can provide testing of .md implementations
      • Babelmark can compare output of 20+ flavors of .md and see if there’s a consensus result.

CommonMark aims to have a

standard, unambiguous syntax specification for Markdown, along with a suite of comprehensive tests to validate Markdown implementations against this specification.

Several implementations of CommonMark exist, including:

  • GitHub/GitLab
  • Reddit
  • Stack Overflow

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🗒Related Notes: What is Markdown?

↳ Created Aug-01-2020 / Updated ∞