Markdown Essay

An alternative to the Essay post type, using Markdown instead of HTML.

Property	Required	Type	Description
`title`	Optional	String	The title of the post.
`excerpt`	Optional	String	An excerpt of the post in Markdown format to be displayed when the whole post is not available.
`body`	Required	String	The body of the post in Markdown format. Renderers may sanitize the output.

Should it support only standard Markdown, Tent Flavored Markdown, or (for the sake of argument) any flavor of Markdown? Keep in mind the requirements for apps wanting to support this post type.
Being compatible with Tent Flavored Markdown (used by status posts) would allow apps to automagically "upgrade" a status post to this post type if it becomes larger than 256 characters. (Although, see next point..)
Tent Flavored Markdown is incompatible with standard Markdown (syntax for emphasis and strikethrough differ, linebreak handling is compatible with most modern flavors however).
This post type wouldn't get support from all Tent blogging apps, as we already have the essay post type that supports HTML only. Users would be limited to Markdown Essay compatible apps when using this post type.
Other users might only be able to receive HTML based essay posts. Apps creating Markdown Essay posts may therefore want to store a compiled HTML copy as an essay post to cater to those. Users should obviously not edit this copy, as it would become out of sync with the original.
Two-way conversion between HTML<->Markdown could offer compatibility with the essay type, and allow editing of either "version". But this sounds like a very hairy workaround.
Markdown is a non-standardized and living markup language with several dialects as well as differing output depending on the implementation used. Just something to be aware of.

joakim / tent-essay-markdown