I posted a Pandoc request: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8752

On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Morgan Willcock <morgan@ice9.digital> writes:
>
> > If ox-md is trying to do the same thing as Markdown.pl then it doesn't
> > really make sense to compare it to CommonMark.
>
> Most likely, ox-md is following Markdown.pl simply because there was no
> better standard at the time ox-md was written.
>
> I now looked up a comparison between markdown flavours (see the attached)
> and I do not see why we should abandon following the original markdown.
> CommonMark and other markdown flavours usually extend things on top of
> the original implementation. So, following Markdown.pl should be the
> most universal option. We leave more specific exporters for advanced
> markdown flavours to external packages.
>
> > The only point am I trying to make is that both ox-md and Pandoc need to
> > deal in the same unambiguous specification in order to inter-operate.
> >
> > For Pandoc, the matching specification needs to be selected to ensure
> > that the correct one is used, but nothing based on Markdown.pl can be
> > unambiguous in this scenario because Markdown.pl has no unambiguous
> > specification.
>
> Indeed.
> I tried to make this point more clear in the attached patch for Org manual.
>
>
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