markdown-dialects.yml

# Markdown Resources: Dialects
# ============================
# Copyright 2013–2016 © Dr Wouter Soudan @ Rhythmus.be
# Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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# Document address: https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/markdown-dialects.yml
# Last revision: 2016-01-13 17:45 GMT+1
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# The following list is far from exhaustive: it’s a (personal,
# and hence, subjective) curated selection of the most common
# Markdown derivative syntax agreements (“dialects”). See also:
# - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown_extensions
---
Markdown (orginal):
  type: html authoring
  website: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
  spec: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
  supported nodes: &plain-markdown
    - headers (six levels)
    - paragraphs
    - unordered lists
    - ordered lists
    - nested lists (?)
    - blockquotes
    - block code
    - inline code
    - inline format emphasize
    - inline format strong
    - auto links
    - inline links
    - referenced links
    - inline images
    - block level images
    - referenced images
    - horizontal rule
  implementations: Perl

CommonMark:
  type: all-purpose document authoring
  description: "A strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown"
  website: http://commonmark.org/
  spec: http://spec.commonmark.org/
  cheat sheet: http://commonmark.org/help/
  supported nodes:
    - *plain-markdown
  implementations: Javascript, C

Madoko:
  type: "all-purpose document authoring (articles, books, manuals, webpages and presentations)"
  description: "Madoko is a fast javascript Markdown processor written in Koka. It has great support to create beautiful scholarly and industrial documents in both HTML and PDF."
  website: http://madoko.codeplex.com/
  spec: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/madoko/doc/reference.html
  supported nodes:
    - *plain-markdown # plus some _may_ more…
  implementations: Koka

GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM):
  type: extension
  website: https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown
  supported nodes:
    - *plain-markdown
    - fenced code blocks
    - syntax highlighting
    - task Lists
    - emoji autocomplete

Stack Overflow Markdown flavor:
  cheat sheet: http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help

Pandoc Markdown:
  type: all-purpose document authoring
  website: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
  implementations: Haskell

MultiMarkdown:
  type: all-purpose document authoring
  website: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/
  spec: http://fletcher.github.io/peg-multimarkdown/mmd-manual.pdf
  cheat sheet: https://rawgithub.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference/master/index.html
  supported nodes:
    - *plain-markdown
    - footnotes
    - tables
    - citations and bibliography (using BibTeX)
    - math
    - automatic cross-referencing ability
    - smart typography (multiple languages)
    - image attributes
    - captions (tables and images)
    - definition lists
    - glossary entries (LaTeX only)
    - document metadata (title, author, etc.)
  implementations: C

Markdown Extra:
  type: extension
  implementations: PHP
  supported nodes:
    - *plain-markdown
    - inline html
    - Markdown inside html blocks
    - header ID attribute
    - fenced code blocks
    - tables
    - definition lists
    - footnotes
    - abbreviations
    - emphasis
    - backslash escapes

Maruku:
  type: extension
  website: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html (dead link)
  implementations: Ruby

Fountain:
  type: domain specific
  website: http://fountain.io/
  description: Syntax convention for scripts writing.

CriticMarkup:
  type: domain specific
  website: http://criticmarkup.com/
  description: “Plain Text Editing Markup for Humans.” Syntax convention for tracking changes (edits) in (Markdownese formatted) documents

Strictdown:
  type: fork
  description: “Strictdown was created to be easy to write, and still readable in plain text format, with a strict and powerful syntax. It is as simple as Markdown but not as complicated as reStructuredText.”
  implementations: Javascript
  website: http://jakwings.github.io/strictdown/Syntax.html
  supported nodes:
    - *plain-markdown # (with a few differences)
    - table of contents
    - simple code blocks
    - fenced code blocks
    - definition lists
    - tables
    - deletions
    - literal text
    - code snippets
    - footnotes
    - abbreviations
    - anchors and inline references
    - advanced reference links
    - block divider
    - sub-indented elements
    - macros