Markdown¶

Conventions¶

• Daring Fireball Markdown Syntax Documentation
• CommonMark (commonmark.org)
• GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) Spec (github.github.com): CommonMark with extensions

Editing¶

• Obsidian: Cross Platform, WYSIWYG, extensive plugins (tables, calendar, etc)
• README: Cross Platform, Live Preview, Syntax Highlighting, Linting, Plugins
• vim: Cross Platform, Terminal, Syntax Highlighting, Linting
• GitHub.com: Web App

Web Clipping¶

• Markdownload : A Firefox and Google Chrome extension to clip websites and download them into a readable markdown file. (github.com/deathau)
  • It's a bit buggy - including moz-extension in copied links sometimes

Syntax¶

• Markdown Links
• Markdown code blocks
• Headings may be folded in some editors/viewers (README)

Python-Markdown¶

Python-Markdown requires 4 spaces for list indentation

Sorry, but the quote from Gruber's rules which is contained in our explanation...

each subsequent paragraph in a list item must be indented by either 4
 spaces or one tab

... can only be interpreted one way by me. Nothing will persuade me otherwise. Gruber simply failed to follow his own rule in his implementation. I have not made that mistake and never will. End of discussion.

That said, you are free to implement your own behavior in an extension/fork/clone/whatever.