On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 at 14:00, Vítek Starý Novotný <wit...@mail.muni.cz> wrote:
> The history is a bit convoluted. Let me see if I can help untangle it: > > - In 2006, Niklas Frykholm created `markdown.lua` [1], a regex-based > Markdown parser written in Lua. > > - In 2009, John MacFarlane, the founder of Pandoc, created Lunamark [2], > an LPEG-based Markdown parser that was ca three orders of magnitude > faster than `markdown.lua`. Around 2011, there is a bunch of commits > with speed optimizations by Hans. > > - In 2016, I created the Markdown Package for TeX [3] as a fork of > Lunamark [3]. Initially, I would contribute fixes upstream and take > them downstream. In 2023, there was a significant rewrite to support > the CommonMark standard [4], which makes our code base largely > incompatible with Lunamark. We are actively developed with monthly > releases. > > Confusingly, the Markdown Package for TeX contains a file titled > `markdown.lua` even though there is no relation to Niklas Frykholm's > code. > > [1]: http://www.frykholm.se/files/markdown.lua > [2]: https://github.com/jgm/lunamark > [3]: https://github.com/witiko/markdown > [4]: https://spec.commonmark.org/ > > I hope this clears things up. > > https://github.com/commonmark/cmark seems to be quite fast -- there is an output format for latex, an output format for context mkiv might make sense (just for (my) records) -- luigi
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