On 20/07/2016 08:37, Markus Armbruster wrote: > I'd less unenthusiastic if MarkDown worked the same everywhere. Its > common core does, but how would we ensure we stick to the common core? > How would we even know what the core common to the various MarkDown > dialects is?
README.md uses exactly three features: * monospace text * headings * lists > Or are we ready to commit to GitHub's dialect? We probably want to rely on GitHub's stricter interpretation of underscores, where they only start/end italic formatting if they are respectively the first or the last character in the word. This is a common extension (for example Stack Exchange does the same). The question is: is anyone actually viewing formatted markdown anywhere else than on github? Paolo
