Re: Announce: Markdown (extended) specifications

Hi Pierre,

are you familiar with the [CommonMark project](http://commonmark.org)? It’s _de facto_ standardized Markdown with very precise [specification](http://spec.commonmark.org). If you wanna extend Markdown syntax, then I highly recommend to start on top of this spec. No one needs yet another incompatible and ambiguous Markdown dialect, there are too many of them already.

Best regards,
  Jakub Jirutka

On 18. Nov 2014, at 15:09, Piero Wbmstr <me@e-piwi.fr> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm quite a newcomer to both the "markdown-discuss" mailing-list and the Markdown W3C Community Group. So first of all let me make a brief introduction: I am a french PHP developer and I work (from a long time now) on a Markdown parser that you can find at http://github.com/piwi/markdown-extended (this is not the subject of this email).
> 
> **I want here to announce that I'm working on writing specifications for a version of the syntax that I called "Markdown Extended" (to differentiate it from the "classic" one).**
> 
> I know some of you are against the idea of such specifications for various reasons ... I won't here try to convince you all about their usefulness, but I would appreciate to have your feedback and comments about this work before publishing it "officially". Those who are fundamentally against such specifications may notice that I tried to clearly separate the "Extended" syntax of the original. Let's consider that the Markdown Extended syntax has its specifications where classic Markdown doesn't.
> 
> **You can read the draft of this work at http://aboutmde.org/ which is actually in ´alpha´ version.**
> **Please feel free to make some returns via this email or the bug tickets of the original repository (it is hosted on GitHub at http://github.com/markdown-extended/manifest).**
> 
> I want to thank in advance all those of you who might take a little time to read this work and give me a comeback.
> Moreover, any contribution is welcome.
> 
> Kind regards,
> -- Pierre Cassat