Well, to be honest, I've only really been exposed to markdown through 
Obsidian.md and they implemented highlighting with '== ==', so until I 
started looking up how to get that to show up in a converted .docx file I 
didn't really know it wasn't common practice :)

On Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 6:11:59 p.m. UTC+1 Joseph wrote:

> BTW: If CommonMark or pandoc were to support highlight, I would then 
> wonder why not support all of CriticMarkup, which supports highlight as 
> `{== ==}` or `{>> <<}`. (It's a shame that we have two different syntaxes 
> emerging for highlight.)
>
> On 21-12-09 11:10, John MacFarlane wrote:
> > 
> > If this is a syntax that is becoming common, we could consider
> > adding a markdown extension for it. You could open an issue on
> > our issue tracker.
> > 
> > Joseph Reagle <josep...-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> writes:
> > 
> >> This is the first time I've encountered [this syntax][1] and it is not 
> natively supported by pandoc. Or am I wrong and you are saying pandoc 
> handles it when using the latex/PDF writer? (Or, are you saying Obsidian 
> can export to PDF, but not Word?)
> >>
> >> I see there's been some discussion on the [CommonMark forum][2], but it 
> doesn't look like you'd find an immediate solution.
> >>
> >> Using a filter or hacking something that converts `==foo==` to 
> [foo]{.highlight} that is properly rendered in Word might be options.
> >>
> >> [1]: https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/#highlight
> >> [2]: 
> https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-text-with-the-mark-element/840
> >>
> >> On 21-12-09 08:29, Paul wrote:
> >>> I use a lot of highlighting in my markdown editor Obsidian, but I was 
> wondering if there's a way to have that highlighting show up in the Word or 
> Libreoffice Writer files?
> >>>
> >>> Bold and italics work fine, as far as I can tell, and when converting 
> to a pdf the highlighting transfers great. I gather, however, that the 
> ==highlighting== is not standard in all markdown so is that the issue?
> >>
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