Comment on Why does markdown always format bullets wrong?

• CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I disagree. It isn’t badly defined, although vanilla Markdown includes some awkward choices. A few have been revised in other versions. But as a markup system that’s also human-readable, it’s a pretty handy tool.

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  • snowe@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    CommonMark itself even claims that markdown doesn’t have a spec, so not sure you can claim it’s not badly defined. spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#why-is-a-spec-needed-

    asciidoc is much better defined, has hardly any edge cases, supports vastly more features, and is a lot easier to use (the lack of a spec doesn’t ever get in the way)

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    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, there’s the replacement then.

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      • snowe@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        CommonMark has been out for almost a decade and still isn’t used ubiquitously, while asciidoc is standard everywhere.

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