Comment on Why does markdown always format bullets wrong?
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 9 months agoI 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.
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)
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 9 months ago
Well, there’s the replacement then.
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.