+++ david parsons [Mar 05 10 22:10 ]: > In article <[email protected]>, > John MacFarlane <[email protected]> wrote: > >Currently big players like reddit and github > >use forms of markdown that depart significantly from John Gruber's > >official specification; > > Okay, I'm curious. Since I'm the writer of the "forms of markdown" > that reddit and github use, just exactly where does discount depart > significantly from JG's official specification?
Oh, I didn't know that either of those sites used discount. Discount is, in my experience, extremely accurate (and extremely fast). But github uses a documented variant for some purposes (http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/), and, as for reddit, I'm just going on my experience having posts there formatted incorrectly. I think one context where that happened was an inline code span with backslashes. According to John Gruber's specification, as I understand it, `a\` should render as <code>a\</code> but discount (at least the version on babelmark) renders it as <code>a\`</code> Similarly, `` a```a `` should render as <code>a```a</code> but discount renders it as <code>a</code><code>a</code><code></code> (Hm, just noticed that peg-markdown and lunamark get that one wrong, too. I'll have to fix that. At least pandoc gets it right.) John _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
