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6 Things Markdown Got Wrong

swyx on March 22, 2020

John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong (in my opinion, of course). This post is an ex...
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Taimoor Sattar

Generally, markdown looks clean on plain text editor rather than HTML. See markdown guide here. If you want to add a custom feature to markdown, you can write your own script. Markdown converted to HTML by the processor when displaying on the client-side. Write the custom script for the processor.

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swyx

no shit

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swyx

for sure! I debated adding shortcodes as one of the "mistakes". but figured it was beyond project goals.

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haha, looks like Dev.To doesn't quite handle code fences correctly @peter