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The Observable standard library.
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Adopt CommonMark? #52

Closed mbostock closed 6 years ago

mbostock commented 6 years ago

@tmcw writes:

Right now we're using marked as a Markdown processor, and we simply document the syntax as Markdown. marked is modeled after the markdown.pl processor, rather than the CommonMark spec.

I think it'd be good for the future™ to commit to CommonMark syntax, as there are multiple commonmark-compliant parsers (commonmark.js, remarkable, markdown-it) with compatible syntax and output, and pointing to CommonMark as 'the syntax we support' is more rigorous than referring to the rather loose original Markdown description.

mbostock commented 6 years ago

I think the cat may already be out of the bag on this one. I expect quite a few notebooks are already using GFM features.

tmcw commented 6 years ago

Yeah, at this stage we can't break all those Markdown tables. A fix would be a bug at this point.