chjj/marked — Issue #27: Implement markdown extra features
Author: dmmalam
Created: 2012-02-01 16:48:48+00:00
State: open

Thanks for the excellent md parser!

There are a bunch of various extensions to markdown
eg
http://freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Extra
http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/
http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html

While not all are exactly critical, things like super/subscript, tables, definition lists, abbreviations can go a long way to make writing md documents easier.

Also simple transformations (like texttile http://rpc.textpattern.com/help/?item=intro) can make the text much more readable
For example
... -> …
' ' -> ‘ ’
" " -> “ ”
-- -> –
(c) -> ©
(r) -> ®
and so on .

Ideally the goal should be to never write pure html for any typographical feature.