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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