Re: djot - a new light markup language

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

djot is an experiment.  Nobody uses it yet, so it's too early to tell what its future is.  I've tried to make it easy for people to try djot, by providing an easy conversion path to and from djot from other common formats.  So hopefully people will try it and we'll see if it catches on.

As for commonmark and pandoc markdown: My ambition is to implement commonmark extensions for all of the main pandoc markdown features, so that we can eventually transition away from the legacy pandoc markdown parser. We have most of the extensions already. But a few extensions are proving difficult (citations especially), so it may take a while.


> On Jul 18, 2022, at 6:24 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Jon, I was wondering if you could speak to how you'd like to see markdown variants progress, especially since you are now behind three of them! 🙂
> 
> - CommonMark: a best attempt at formalizing the ambiguities of legacy markdown; stable (no more features); you recommend new efforts adopt djot or pandoc-markdown.
> - djot: simpler to implement and likely to see easily implementable features.
> - pandoc-markdown: CommonMark with powerful extensions (e.g., bibliography).
> 
> 
> On 22-07-18 12:08, John MacFarlane wrote:
>> If I did include something as standard syntax, I'd be inclined not to make it YAML, which is too complicated, but maybe a YAML subset.
> 
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