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Adam Crockett 🌀

I realize thats MDs purpose but with some language development I'm sure it could be competitive. I wasn't clear sorry.

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

Ah, I see. I suppose the main concern is still just the fundamental ambiguity of the syntax. E.g. asterisk, hyphen, underscore being used for multiple styles and sometimes interchangeably. I still find using certain markdown elements to be trial and error in combination with others (lists, tables). And not necessarily portable. Because of the ambiguity, seems like a standardization would get bogged down in defining defaults for the many corner cases. Seems better to take the improvements and make a more precise document language that could be standardized. But who knows? Perhaps I lack the proper imagination for the task. I do love markdown myself.