Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> However, "ox-md.el" is for Vanilla Markdown, where such constructs do
> not exist. So it cannot be applied there.

> ISTR there are a few others export back-ends in contrib/ that may use
> this. You may also create ox-md-pandoc.el if it doesn't exist already.

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> I don't think it's inadequate, but I also don't know if this should be
> part of ox-md in it’s present form.
>
> The original md specification doesn’t seem to support this syntax:
>
>          https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
>
> (I searched for % and author).
>
> Would it be recognized by say Github or Stack Exchange?  On Github
> "^% Rasmus\n"  is printed as just that, so I guess not.
>
> Perhaps it would be better to define a new backend, ox-md-pandoc.el, or
> add a "#+MARKDOWN_FLAVOR" keyword to condition such insertions on.
>

Great minds always meet ;-)

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Nick