standard-izing extended markdown

Michel Fortin
2008-07-23T10:13:32Z

Le 2008-07-22 ? 15:18, Gour a ?crit :

> That's why I'm interested to know what is the plan in regard to
> standardizing some of those 'extra' features which put markdown
markup
> in the category of (more) serious authoring solutions?

Well, I plan to specify and define unambiguously the syntax for
Markdown Extra, with an eye on keeping that spec usable to implement a
plain Markdown parser too. I hope to convince some other Markdown
implementers to follow the parsing model in that spec to help improve
interoperability and compatibility both with standard and extra
features.

You can read the current draft here:
<http://michelf.com/specs/markdown-extra/>

Development of that spec is somewhat stalled right now, as I'm working
on other things. Note that these other things include an experimental
incremental parser for PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra... which
could count as advancing the spec anyway by looking at what is
practical and what is not. (Some problems with the current approach in
the spec convinced me to experiment a little before writing further.)


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com