Re: What is out there?

On 20 November 2012 02:14, Nathan Youngman <nj@nathany.com> wrote:
> The MediaWiki format is certainly strange compared to Markdown. I brought
> over the table from Wikipedia so that we can further revise it:
>
> http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/wiki/MarkdownImplementations
>
> I'm not sure that we need to list/consider the various editors? The many
> bindings for Sundown and Discount probably don't need their own entries
> either.
>
> Nathan.


Agree. Editors supporting md are out of scope.

regards

>
>
> On 19 November 2012 18:08, Nathan Youngman <nj@nathany.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I agree that we need an idea of popularity, maintenance, etc.
>>
>> Companies using it
>> Downloads
>> Link to source repository
>> Date of last update
>> Age/completeness
>>
>> Some of this information can be found in place like the Ruby Toolbox:
>> https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/markup_processors
>>
>> I like how the StackOverflow link takes a survey of how a particular
>> feature (code fencing) is implemented. From that, we could make
>> recommendations based on user expectation (familiarity with popular
>> implementations and consistency with the rest of the spec).
>>
>> I don't think we can possibly evaluate every implementation there is, but
>> we could choose a dozen or so of the "top" ones.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2012-11-19, at 5:55 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For the sake of having somewhere to look,
>> would users please list all the markdown implementations / syntax that
>> they know of?
>>
>> I'll put them on a wiki page as reference.
>>
>> If you know or think an implementation is popular/ very popular / unused
>> please add that.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> --
>> Dave Pawson
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> Nathan Youngman
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